Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

The concern we should have is not that North Korea would suddenly launch a preemptive strike on Guam or any other target, but that the conflict escalates to the point that there is a miscalculation on one side or another and missiles or bombs are dropped.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

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

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think it could consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

The enumeration of human values as five - Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non-violence is not correct. They are all facets of the foundational humanness. They grow together; they are absence of Inner conflicts. How can one have peace when he revels in violence of speach and action?

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

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

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.

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

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

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.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

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

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

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

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

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

The nuclear program is not the only issue dividing Iran and the US. Iran's role in the region is also creating conflicts. For example, you support the Shiite Houthi militias in Yemen whereas the US is on the side of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.

The president can't have a conflict of interest.

The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.

The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who they wanted to take over, they wanted pliant government, figures, structures, they wanted to continue indirectly in effect their control over much of their colonial possessions and this was one of the very early causes of conflict.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.