Conflict Quotes

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions...

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of av...

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and...

Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon ...

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flo...

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in...

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who be...

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They hav...

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point...

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of s...

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all...

That our selves and all men are apt and prone to differ it is no new Thing in all former Ages in all...

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily capt...

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that i...

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPo...

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless ...

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. ...

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, whe...

There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab disput...

I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes...

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a...

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between ...

How do you stop conflict without conflict?

Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must str...

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between d...

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence re...

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself see...

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination ...

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genu...

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human deve...

Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going ...

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that ...

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with simil...

If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight be...

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehuman...

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger la...

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things i...

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things i...

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good t...

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of...

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over fo...

All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in th...

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nati...

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd pre...

An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 5...

How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of...

Science can now help us to understand ourselves in this way by giving factual information about brai...

Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...

it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantr...

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I le...

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to con...

Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's wh...

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea th...

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think...

But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individu...

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family mem...

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes t...

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to p...

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiterac...

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all."The intense excitement...

To live is to war with trolls.

Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or othe...

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both des...

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variet...

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

To put it differently, as long as mind and heart are caught up in want, in desire, there must be emp...

One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, withou...

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth...