Conflict Quotes

Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu

The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree

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

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
- Thomas Paine

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict,
nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.
- Thor Heyerdahl

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong,
but between two different kinds of right.
- Peter Shaffer

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning,
which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science,
has its origin in these debates.
- Robert B. Laughlin

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
- Ridley Scott

Woman is also the element of conflict.
- Marcello Mastroianni

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are,
and conflict means drama.
- Allen Tate

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're
seeing 100,000 victims per month.
- Nicholas D. Kristof

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go.
If it's in conflict with the Scripture,
then it's heresy.
- Randall Terry

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism,
has become a cause for extremists.
- Porter Goss

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

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for.
I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front.
If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
- Clara Barton

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father,
but it was rough growing up.
We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
- Ira Levin

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on -
the conflict between right and wrong,
between error and truth.
In this conflict every human being has a part.
- Matthew Simpson

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
- Donatella Versace

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

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective,
and recognizes only difference, never inequality,
only fragments, never conflict.
- Elizabeth Wilson

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand,
and conflict ensues between the forces of production
and the social conditions of production.
- Earl Browder

In situations of military conflict, civil strife,
lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations,
terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
- Gijs de Vries

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert
and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican
or fundamental Christian.
It can cloud my enjoyment.
I'd rather not know.
- Linda Ronstadt

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and
echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away
and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
- Jim Walsh

We are not at war with Egypt.
We are in an armed conflict.
- Anthony Eden

In the long term we can hope that religion will change
the nature of man and reduce conflict.
But history is not encouraging in this respect.
The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
- Richard M. Nixon

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict,
unlike any experienced by our nation before:
we face an enemy that is not a state.
- Paul Weyrich

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal;
on the contrary,
from the very first months of the conflict,
it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
- Leon Jouhaux

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
- Leland Stanford

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict:
Ireland,
South Africa, the Czech republic.
People there are overflowing with energy.
- Brian Eno

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict,
I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia,
we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
- Mel Gibson

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict,
something bad has to happen.
- Mike Judge

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it
is between the regime and the people.
- Viktor Yushchenko

Change means movement.
Movement means friction.
Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract
world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
- Saul Alinsky

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict
fought and won by his generation,
making training films in Hollywood.
- R. W. Apple, Jr.

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

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager,
at those two stages of human development characterized
by conflict between autonomy and security.
- Anna Quindlen

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.
- Henry Norris Russell

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
There is only the global war on terrorism.
- Tom DeLay

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered
in the annals of the country,
arrived.
Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.
- Edward Everett

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no
other choice than to leave the country.
- Ari Fleischer

If I, taking care of everyone's interests,
also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.
- Silvio Berlusconi

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between
Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
- Toni Morrison

Communism is in conflict with human nature.
- Ernest Renan

When France resolved, along with England,
to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland,
the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome
proportions was inevitable.
- Rene Cassin

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities
involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Steven Spielberg

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment,
resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as
the connection we see today between human rights,
democracy and peace.
- Wangari Maathai

What we have is two important values in conflict:
freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.
You can't have both.
- Dick Gephardt

Happiness is a byproduct of function,
purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for
itself seek victory without war.
- William S. Burroughs

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in
a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
- Aly Khan

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally
closed by our adversaries,
and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with
the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
- Robert Toombs

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- Simone Weil

The stakes in conflict do not change.
Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
- Frank Herbert

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it,
and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
- James Wolfensohn

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed
by the Geneva Conventions,
which applies only to international conflicts between
states that have signed them.
- John Yoo

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord,
not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace,
not those of war.
- William McKinley

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me,
and what would I use for the band.
- Martin Gore

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
- Wayne Allard

The first phase of American political history was characterized
by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans,
and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
- Herbert Croly

President Bush and his commanders announced early in
the conflict that the Conventions applied.
- John Yoo

Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is...
everyone now accepts that if there is a default by
Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.
- Tony Blair

You cannot divorce religious belief and public service.
I've never detected any conflict between
God's will and my political duty.
If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine,
men and women, be ready for conflict,
both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
- Ahmed Yassin

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
- Warren Mitchell

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