Conflict Quotes

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

There is no conflict between religion and science.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

For me, drama is conflict.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.