Conflict Quotes

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

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

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.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

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.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

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

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I'm 'bad'.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

A goal is a planned conflict with the status quo.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

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

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.

Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.