Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.

I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to be in. I've seen what's happened to other directors who have done that.

I think the scale of the conflict [in Afghanistan] has dramatically changed in 2003. You're now facing a much more motivated, well-supported enemy. I don't see any quick end to this thing.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace.

It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creating a new "pearl" as we are in being right.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

It's a conflict of parallels.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

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.

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 a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories were about all the pleasant things in life. Since we know our troubles are always coming we want to see in our fiction examples of how others have dealt with them.

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

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

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 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.