Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

There are instances in which American interests align with Russia and there are those where they don't. And so the question is, can we help steer Russia to being something that doesn't conflict with our interests and something that - and a country that aligns with our interests?

There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.

There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

There is no conflict between religion and science.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women to enter abortion clinics without harassment and doctors who oppose performing abortions. No social role is free of such potential conflicts.

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

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

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.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.