Best 1098 quotes in «conflict quotes» category

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.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

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

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.

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

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

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

We belong to each other.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.

We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants.

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We should all oppose - as Darwin did - views manifestly in conflict with the evidence, such as creationism... But we shouldn't set up this debate as 'religion v science'; instead we should strive for peaceful coexistence with at least the less dogmatic strands of mainstream religions, which number many excellent scientists among their adherents.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

When it comes to cyber conflicts between, say, America and China or even a Middle Eastern nation, an African nation, a Latin American nation, a European nation, we have more to lose.

When I used to theorize about a nuclear standoff, I didn't really have to understand what was happening inside the Soviet Union. It is a lot harder now to build a theory that can encompass all the complications of today's conflicts.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.