Conflict Quotes

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

We belong to each other.

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.