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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country – a border culture.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

The problem is that our whole tribe – if you will, the larger community of humanity itself – is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Emotional intelligence in the work that we do, in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, is about equipping young people with the kinds of skills they need to both identify and manage their emotions, to communicate those emotions effectively, and to resolve conflict nonviolently. So it’s a whole set of skills and competencies that, for us, fall under the umbrella of emotional intelligence.

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like…it can cause conflict. As much as you’re married, you’re still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum … not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.

What matters is not the isolated entity, but the space between things, the relationship of things – the Bond…Every conflict that occurs – whether between husband and wife, social or racial groups – is resolved only when we can fully see and embrace the space – the Bond – between us.