Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

Alcohol causes conflicts, firearms resolve conflicts.

All conflict comes from attachment.

All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners are very much looked down on and there is a real conflict between the locals and the Bennies - people that are out of towners, not from the shore. That's slang going back in the day.

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a determinate picture of the existing world. We must eliminate some of the conflicting possibilities, and this can be brought about only by experiment and observation.

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.