Conflict Quotes · Page 48

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

— Yuri Gagarin

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

— Dalai Lama

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.

— Penny Rimbaud

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's…

— Mary Wiseman

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

— Susan Jacoby

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

— B. R. Ambedkar

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Humans connect to human conflict and emotions, if the emotions are put across correctly, the audience will connect with it.

— Arjun Mathur

Life's not so rocky now. It was very volatile when you're young: you've got no experience. Your sense of disappointment is far…

— Ian Gillan

The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made may be alive or dead. To the extent they…

— Christopher Alexander

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

— Edward Norton

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

— Henry Adams

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

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

— Kenneth Cloke

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

— Serge Schmemann

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of…

— Peter Abelard

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

I believe water will be the defining crisis of our century — from droughts, storms, and floods to degrading water quality. We'll…

— Alexandra Cousteau

“The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as…

— Paul Ferrini

The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the…

— Bertrand Russell

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start…

— Adam Johnson

[A conflict of Sunni vs. Shia] is in the mind of the Saudis, and this is in the minds of the Wahabists.…

— Bashar al-Assad

I always talk about Meredith and Derrick from 'Grey's Anatomy,' and I loved them the most when they sort of opened and…

— Julie Plec

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she…

— Swami Vivekananda

It's important to be able to speak directly to people, have real conflict and resolve it.

— Alisyn Camerota

The unpleasant truth is that some borders are untenable and preserving them causes conflict, not peace.

— John Mearsheimer

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

— Trent Lott

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and…

— Kofi Annan

I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

— Joshua Henry

Somepeople have to learn to let bygones be bygones otherwise their lives will be bound with miseries.

— Simphiwe Ntuli

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

— Jon Landau

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

— Woody Allen

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious…

— Alva Myrdal

“Indahnya "sekali mengayuh dayung, dua-tiga pulau terlampaui" bisa terancam kalau muncul yang namanya "conflict of interest”

— Sartika Kurniali

“Sometimes you had to call up a little conflict in order to get to a peace worth having.”

— Jocelyn Green Wedded to War Heroines Behind the Lines

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have…

— Mary Parker Follett

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

— Patrick Seguin