Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign of uncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

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

To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

Trump wants to make peace; he wants to see Ukrainian conflict resolved; he wants to see Ukraine get its territory back. It's crystal clear. With Putin, I think we see glimmers; we see a reason to think maybe they do. But they have to make the choice to do that, and they can very well choose the opposite.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.

Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

We belong to each other.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants.

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.