In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
~By Li Peng ~
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
~By Jeanne Elium ~
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.
~By Robert Shea ~
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 ~
Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
~By R. W. Apple, Jr. ~
I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.
~By Jenna Elfman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
~By Donatella Versace ~
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 ~
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.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
~By Anthony Eden ~
The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.
~By Michael McCaul ~
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
~By Mo Rocca ~
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 ~
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
~By Vito Fossella ~
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
~By Bjorn Ulvaeus ~
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
~By Amos Oz ~
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
~By Ariel Sharon ~
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 ~
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
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 have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
~By Amos Oz ~
Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.
~By Porter Goss ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
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 ~
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
~By M. Esther Harding ~
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
~By John Ashcroft ~
I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
~By Tony Blair ~
When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.
~By Rene Cassin ~
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
~By Ridley Scott ~
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
~By Amos Oz ~
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
~By Tom Arnold ~
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
~By Hans Kung ~
We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.
~By Anders Fogh Rasmussen ~
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 ~
My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
~By Melanie Klein ~
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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 ~
None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
~By Yoweri Museveni ~
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
~By Deborah Cox ~
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
~By Hassanal Bolkiah ~
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
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 ~
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
~By Tom DeLay ~
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 ~
The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.
~By John C. Danforth ~
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
~By John H. Reagan ~
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
~By Earl Browder ~
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
~By John L. Lewis ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
~By Viktor Yushchenko ~
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
~By Allen Tate ~
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
~By Richard Lugar ~
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 ~
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
~By Brad Garrett ~
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
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 ~
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
You can not 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 ~
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 ~
Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
~By John Yoo ~
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
~By Karen Horney ~
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 ~
In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
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