Conflict Quotes

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

Everywhere I went on my job covering conflict, the Kalashnikov was the predominant arm.

People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

Words began fights and words ended them.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

Conflict begins at the moment of birth.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.