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.

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.

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.

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

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

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.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

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.

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.

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 conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

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.

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

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

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

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

If you can’t go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

But the majority of mothers work – and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.

The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they’ve been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.

When you’re a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you’re married to them or not, you’re going to run into creative conflicts. If you’re a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don’t have them with my wife.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

The religious conflicts of the Reformation era were never simply and only about religion, because religion during this era as in the Middle Ages that preceded it, informed and was meant to inform every domain of life. Violence involving religion and touching other areas of life took many forms: from the Protestant destruction of Catholic religious art and objects in iconoclasm, to Catholic executions of Protestants who refused to renounce their views, to major destructive conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years’ War.

The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

I’ll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He’s of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.

I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.