Conflict Quotes

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

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

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

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

You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

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

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Supreme good is like water. Water greatly benefits all things, without conflict. It flows through places that people loathe. Thereby it is close to the Way.

Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

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.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.