Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

You are wrong,” says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. “Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier’s life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder.

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

You can teach people everything except how to get along.

You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It's that simple.

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

You need to take the chance because you cannot read the thoughts of people, because you do not want to regret when you grow old, because life is short and time is fleeting, because arousing conflict works at times, because sometimes it’s the only way, the absolute option, because sometimes it’s just necessary.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

You want to discuss the situation and the behavior as the problem, and not them.

A change initiative can fail for multiple reasons - in fact, there are just too many things that can go wrong. The focus of the initiative might be wrong - too narrow or too broad. The initiative might be poorly executed or under-resourced. But most often, a change initiative fails because it hits a behavioral impasse. Something in the culture of the company is in conflict with the objective or execution of the initiative.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

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

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

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

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

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.

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

All conflict comes from attachment.

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

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.

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

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

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.