Conflict Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Conflict

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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~


Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
~By Juan Cole ~


My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
~By Tom DeLay ~


In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~


You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
~By Harvey Korman ~


The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
~By Frank Herbert ~


I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
~By Huston Smith ~


I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.
~By Tony Brown ~


Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~


This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
~By Jim Walsh ~


Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
~By Fred Barnes ~


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.
~By Matthew Simpson ~


I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
~By Plato ~


Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
~By Jan Egeland ~


I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
~By Brian Eno ~


According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
~By Jeff Miller ~


When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
~By Harri Holkeri ~


We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.
~By Fred Thompson ~


I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.
~By Henry A. Wise ~


I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~


The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
~By Anna Lindh ~


An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
~By Bridget Riley ~


Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~By William James ~


Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
~By Amos Oz ~


A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
~By Bruce Dickinson ~


There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
~By Thomas Jordan Jarvis ~


It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
~By Roger Ebert ~


My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~


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.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~


You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
~By Jimmy Carter ~


There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
~By Martin Buber ~


That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~


I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~


Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
~By Cathy Guisewite ~


There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~


One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.
~By Amos Oz ~


But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~


Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
~By Paulo Freire ~


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.
~By Ariel Sharon ~


Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
~By Dorothy Thompson ~


History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~


Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
~By Andrew Bernstein ~


To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~


Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~


Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~


The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.
~By Porter Goss ~


If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
~By Randall Terry ~


There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
~By Viktor Yushchenko ~


There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
~By Philip Knight ~


None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
~By Yoweri Museveni ~


As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.
~By Allen Boyd ~


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.
~By Peter DeFazio ~


The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
~By Alain de Botton ~


In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
~By Lao Tzu ~


It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
~By Linda Ronstadt ~


I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
~By Jan Egeland ~


I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.
~By David Baker ~


Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.
~By Mathias Rust ~


The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
~By Omar Bongo ~


The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
~By Aly Khan ~


Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
~By Deborah Tannen ~


We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~


True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
~By Winston Churchill ~


The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
~By Garth Brooks ~


Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.
~By Kit Bond ~


The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
~By John H. Reagan ~


Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
~By William J. Brennan ~


Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~


During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
~By John Nelson Darby ~


We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
~By Robert Toombs ~


Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~


During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
~By Philip Gibbs ~


Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
~By Victoria Secunda ~


The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~


Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
~By John Ashcroft ~


Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~


At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~


I don't like conflict.
~By Nigella Lawson ~


To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
~By Ari Fleischer ~


It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
~By Mo Rocca ~


I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~


Communism is in conflict with human nature.
~By Ernest Renan ~


I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~


Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~


In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
~By Warren Buffett ~


There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~


We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.
~By Wolfgang Petersen ~


But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~


The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
~By John Hewson ~


What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
~By Dick Gephardt ~


Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
~By Salman Rushdie ~


So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
~By William Kirby ~


I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
~By Abigail Adams ~


Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.
~By Gijs de Vries ~


This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~


In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~


Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~


All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~


For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
~By Martin Buber ~


Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
~By Jessica Savitch ~

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