Become Quote by Dinaw Mengestu

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

— Pope Paul VI

Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as…

— Yemi Osinbajo

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American…

— Barack Obama

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

— Segolene Royal

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans…

— Norbert Elias

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

“Some of the world’s violent conflicts are mainly economic, territorial or tribal. But many seem to come, at least in part, from conflicts between…

— Jonathan Glover

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in…

— Miroslav Volf

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

— Ross Douthat

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has…

— Stephen Kinzer