Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage. It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Many priests say that retirement is more identified with freedom from meetings, budgets, personnel conflicts, and "dealing with the Chancery." Even as I struggled not to take that last point too personally, I was reminded that I have heard the same sentiment from many of my bishop friends as well!

Merkel is a flagship of the EU. Not everything depends on her, but much does. I have been shocked in a positive way by how Merkel is defending international law so openly and strongly. She wants to have peace and stability in the EU, and she knows that Russia is a problem in terms of security. It seems to me that many Germans are led by a certain fear of Russia. So you hear things like, "Let's avoid conflicts with Moscow, let's appease the Kremlin.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

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

Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

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

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

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

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

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

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

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

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe and that a negotiated end to the conflict is the only way to achieve lasting peace in Syria.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

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

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.