Conflict Quotes

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Strong professional communities risk and sometimes relish conflict.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones. There's no precedent for it.

[Donald] Trump's business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

Cyber will be part of any future conflict - whether it's a nation state or terrorism.

I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.