Conflict Quotes
1892 Conflict quotes by 1335 unique authors
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Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.
— Neville Goddard
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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
— Lawana Blackwell
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
— Socrates
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You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to…
— Genghis Khan
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
— Mary Esther Harding
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If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex…
— Joost Meerloo
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When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in…
— Price Pritchett
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The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right…
— Paul K. Chappell
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The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of…
— Dalai Lama
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In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a…
— Fritjof Capra
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The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less…
— David W Augsburger
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If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
— Kenneth Kaye
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In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out…
— Unknown Author
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All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless…
— Erich Fromm
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The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our…
— Amir Butler
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I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical…
— Unknown Author
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Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most…
— Ayn Rand
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It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake…
— Irene Khan
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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not…
— William McKinley
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The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.
— Paul K. Chappell
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
— Henry Adams
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A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity.…
— Anthony Lawlor
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The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so…
— Lewis Mumford
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War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was…
— George W. Bush
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