Conflict Quotes

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops. (Amos Oz)

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Emil Cioran

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

Peter Shaffer

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

William McKinley

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Charlie Chaplin

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Robert Mugabe

I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.

Robert Aumann

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Paulo Freire

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Saul Alinsky

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

Émile Coué

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Hilaire Belloc

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. Live is never dull.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Erich Fromm

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Robert Shea

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

William James

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. (Amos Oz)

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

Tom DeLay

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

Janeane Garofalo

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.

Louis Aragon

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Salman Rushdie

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