Conflict Quotes

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.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

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

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

You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

To live is to war with trolls.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

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

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

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

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without 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.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

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

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

The impact of armed conflict on children is everyone's responsibility. And it must be everyone's concern.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.