Quotes on Conflict

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Author: B. Ambedkar

Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

Author: Bruce Babbitt

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Author: Daniel Barenboim

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Author: Clara Barton

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

Author: Otto Bismarck

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Author: Earl Browder

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.

Author: Tony Brown

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

Author: John Carre

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

Author: Rene Cassin

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Author: William Channing

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Emile Cioran

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Author: Mason Cooley

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Author: Doug Coupland

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

Author: John Danforth

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Author: Jeffery Deaver

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

Author: Melvil Dewey

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

Author: Bruce Dickinson

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Author: Wayne Dyer

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

Author: Edward Everett

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

Author: Paulo Freire

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

Author: Janeane Garofalo

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

Author: Martin Gore

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

Author: Ian Hart

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

Author: John Hewson

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Author: Duncan Hunter

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Author: Allison Janney

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Author: Leon Jouhaux

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Author: Mike Judge

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.

Author: William Kirby

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

Author: Nicholas Kristof

I don't like conflict.

Author: Nigella Lawson

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Author: Marcello Mastroianni

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

Author: Ethel Merman

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

Author: Yoweri Museveni

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

Author: John Olver

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Author: Amos Oz

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

Author: Amos Oz

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Author: Thomas Paine

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Author: Li Peng

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Author: Yitzhak Rabin

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

Author: Anders Rasmussen

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Author: John Reagan

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Author: Mo Rocca

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Author: Gerhard Schroder

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Author: Debbie Schultz

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.

Author: Brent Scowcroft

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Author: Brent Scowcroft

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

Author: Peter Shaffer

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

Author: Ignazio Silone

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Author: Leland Stanford

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

Author: Leland Stanford

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

Author: Arthur Sulzberger

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Author: Randall Terry

In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

Author: Gijs Vries

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

Author: Curt Weldon

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

Author: Paul Weyrich

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.

Author: Elizabeth Wilson

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

Author: James Wolfensohn

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.

Author: Chen Yang

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

Author: John Yoo

He who angers you, conquers you.

Author: Jenna Waters