Conflict Quotes

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

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.

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Isn't the origin of conflict ego? If there is no ego there is no becoming.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

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

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.

No conflict, no interest.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

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.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

I don't like conflict.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.