Conflict Quotes · Page 6

We are the prisoners of ideas.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

— Frank Knight

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

— James Frey

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

— Emile M. Cioran

The president can't have a conflict of interest.

— Donald Trump

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

— Lester B. Pearson

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

— Warren Mitchell

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

— Anonymous

“If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.”

— E.L. James

“Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.”

— Ozzie Zehner

“(His WIFE, understanding everything, wants him to stay. MARVIN wants to go. Or MARVIN wants to stay. She wants him to go.…

— William Finn

“Hate, just like love, is a propulsion force; it is also, to the unwise, a defining matter - On Hate.”

— Lamine Pearlheart

The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.

— Tzipi Livni

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.

— Starhawk

I wouldn't know the political solution to ending the conflict in those countries that refugees escape from. The only thing I know…

— Bianca Balti

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures…

— Henry Adams

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy…

— Edward Norton

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts…

— Serge Schmemann

Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning,…

— Kenneth Cloke

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“I summarize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as two peaceful peoples who form the majority, caught in the crossfire between extremists who are the…

— Mouloud Benzadi

Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences…

— Anthony de Jasay

“All the energy is destroyed due to conflict. That is why the infinite energy of the soul does not manifest (is not…

— Dada Bhagwan

It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first…

— Molly Antopol

“War, on the other hand, was the result of failure; failure of diplomacy, failure of intelligence, failure to prepare, failure to act…

— Col Don Wilson

I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I…

— Billy Graham

“One was watching the other day a red-tailed hawk, high in the heavens, circling effortlessly, without a beat of the wing, just…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the…

— Brad Stephan Gregory

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is…

— Slavoj Žižek

There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not…

— John Yoo

Two wrongs don't make a right, but it does make us equal and even.

— Anonymous

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

— Phil McGraw

There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel.

— Hassan Nasrallah

“Causing harm is never just a one-way street.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

“View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.”

— Ashleigh Slater

“Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.”

— Bryant McGill