Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

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

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

I call myself "The Love King" in all aspects. Poetically speaking, in the bedroom, I love, and in social conflict.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

I care about Ukraine's success as a country; I'd like to see the conflict resolved. I'd like to see us getting back to the idea we - you know, over many, many administrations, starting with George H.W. Bush and onward, we talked about a Europe whole, free and at peace. That we're looking to promote democratic societies, prosperous, market-driven societies and security for everybody, indivisible, including Russia. And we have never gotten there.

I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

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

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.