Browsing Topic Best Conflict Quotes

People are getting really turned off by it. They’re not getting anything of value from the conversation that’s happening on these debates that are really like political reality TV. They are completely set up for conflict and confrontation to drive up ratings so … the corporate media can make more money.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The continuing conflict between the US and China complicates matters, because we ought to work together on climate change and on developing a vaccine against Covid-19.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.

You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They’re often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I’m acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep – as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

What is… disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause… The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

I think, with Trump, the major point is this guy has business enterprises all over the world. And you’re looking just at immense, immense conflict of interest.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.