Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

Enemy images are the main reason conflicts don't get resolved.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Expressing our vulnerability can help resolve conflicts.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

God knows what each one of us is dealing with. He knows our pressures. He knows our conflicts. And He has made a provision for each and every one of them. That provision is Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit, indwelling us and empowering us to respond rightly.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

I actually think that the Russians are exploring the idea: Is it worth ending this conflict in the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, creating peace, getting out, and what would that look like? I don't think they're committed to it yet; I don't think they've made a decision one way or the other - but I think they're exploring it.

I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to snap. Music and politics, it seems, are increasingly considered to be separate domains. Music is about making peace, not conflict, they say. And, therefore, it is best to do what is considered normal and uncontroversial. Increasingly, accepting the status quo is a precondition for being considered entertainment, while protest culture is grouped alongside politics.

I am quite confident that there are numerous discussions going in various "deep states" throughout the world about how to contain Trump's America geopolitically and economically, given the early indications that his policies will intensify conflict in many parts of the world.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.