Conflict Quotes · Page 38

Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

— Alan Huffman

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

— Vikrant Parsai

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

— Daniel Pipes

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

— Park Geun-hye

“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

All couples have ups and downs but how you handle it is what defines true love. arguments are simply a test to…

— Keesling Moraiji Tatenda

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

— Cary Fukunaga

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

— Howard Zinn

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the…

— Paul Virilio

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East,…

— Stephen Kinzer

I'm just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front... Everyone's always,…

— Nathan Englander

Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love…

— Daniel Dennett

The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into…

— Charles B. Rangel

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of…

— Abraham Lincoln

We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can…

— Peace Pilgrim

For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show…

— Forest Whitaker

Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of…

— Tim Jackson

What we want, ultimately, is not a military conflict with China. And I have I'm not someone who has any interest in…

— Colin Allred

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict…

— Julian Baggini

“Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it,…

— John Steinbeck

Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the…

— Mother Teresa

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It…

— John Daniel

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Takamasa Saegusa: 'Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our…

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

— Han Fei

“We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together. Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts.”

— Toba Beta

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the…

— Jason Scott Lee

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get…

— Ira Sachs

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I…

— Ken Loach

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and…

— John M. Gottman

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

— Camille Paglia

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

— Mike Brearley

Advertising causes conflicts at exactly the most vulnerable age for children to be in conflict with parents.

— John Condry

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

— Martha Beck

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

— Ellen Goodman

The more you expect,the harder you slapped your face to deal the your own disappointments.

— Louaiq8

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

— David Ogilvy

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

— May Sarton

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

— Lyle E. Schaller

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

— Anton Chekhov