Conflict Quotes

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.

Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

There are far more statues of soldiers out there than there are of civilians.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

Between our way of life and communism there can be no peace, no paralyzing coexistence, no gray neutralism. There can only be conflict-total and without reconciliation.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity