Conflict Quotes

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

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

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

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.

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.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

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

I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you're looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.

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

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

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

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

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

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.

Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced atrocities in conflict.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.