Conflict quotes
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
-- Abdallah II -
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin
-- Ai Yazawa -
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
-- Albert Low -
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It's a conflict of parallels.
-- Alex Ferguson -
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.
-- Alexander Waugh -
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
-- Allen Tate -
Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
-- Allison Janney -
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
-- Alvin Plantinga -
My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
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The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
-- Amir Butler -
Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.
-- Anabel Jensen -
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
-- Andre Maurois -
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
-- Andrea Arnold -
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The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.
-- Andrei Zhdanov -
My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
-- Ang Lee -
Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.
-- Angelina Jolie -
Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
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Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.
-- Anthony de Jasay -
All conflict comes from attachment.
-- Anthony de Mello -
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
-- Anthony Eden -
Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
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To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.
-- Ayn Rand -
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.
-- Barack Obama -
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The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
-- Bayard Rustin -
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
-- Bernard Membe -
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
-- Bill Cosby -
The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
-- Bill Hybels -
Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
-- Bill Mollison -
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
-- Bill Nye -
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict
-- Bridget Riley -
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
-- Cat Stevens -
I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.
-- Catherine the Great -
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
I think America is just so in love with conflict.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
-- Clint Eastwood -
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Cyber will be part of any future conflict -- whether it's a nation state or terrorism,
-- Cofer Black -
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
-- Concha Buika -
You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.
-- Cornel Wilde -
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
-- Criss Jami -
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It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.
-- Curt Weldon -
I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby
-- D. J. MacHale -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.
-- Dan Ariely -
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
-- Dan Gelber -
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
-- Daniel Barenboim -
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
-- Daniel Pipes -
Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
-- Danny Silk -
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To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
-- David Richo -
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
-- David Seabury -
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
-- Dean Koontz -
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.
-- Deborah Tannen -
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Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
-- Dee Dee Myers -
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
-- Desmond Tutu -
When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?
-- Diane Dreher -
Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.
-- Doc Holliday -
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I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
-- Don Winslow -
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
-- Donald Miller -
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
-- Donald Tusk -
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.
-- Douglas Conant -
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
-- Douglas Coupland -
The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.
-- Eboo Patel -
Can one consider controversy without falling into it?
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
-- Emile Coue -
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
-- Ernest Renan -
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
-- Ethel Merman -
The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.
-- Ezekiel Emanuel -
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them
-- Felix Frankfurter -
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
-- Frank Herbert -
Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.
-- Frank Knight -
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There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
-- G. Edward Griffin -
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
-- G. H. Hardy -
There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.
-- George Armstrong Custer -
The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.
-- George Blagden -
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And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen -
Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.
-- Gertrude Stein -
I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,
-- Giles Duley -
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I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
-- Giovanni della Casa -
Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
-- Glen Hansard -
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
-- Grove Karl Gilbert -
Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.
-- Harrison Owen -
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Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.
-- Harsha Bhogle -
There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
-- Hassanal Bolkiah -
It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.
-- Helen Eustis -
