Conflict Quotes
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.
Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.
...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.
We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.
There's no doubt that I respect the Second Amendment, that I also believe there's an individual right to bear arms. That is not in conflict with sensible, commonsense regulation.
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.
Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.
Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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.
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.
To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.
I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.
Drama is about conflict and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.
Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.
The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.
The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.