Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

There is no working middle course in wartime.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.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

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

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

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 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.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

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

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

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

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

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

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