Conflict Quotes

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

When conflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Thank God, I think no one is thinking of unleashing a large-scale conflict with Russia. I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

[Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The course of true love never did run smooth said by lysander