Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.