Quotes with conflict

  • Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
  • Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
  • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
  • Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
  • We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
  • An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
  • Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
  • 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.
  • What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
  • The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
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  • Martin Luther King 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
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • William Ellery Channing Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Mangnu Hirschfield Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
    Mangnu Hirschfield
    German physician and sexologist
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  • Saul Alinsky 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
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Albert Einstein During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Charell It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
    Ralph Charell
    American author
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  • Louis Aragon 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
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar 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.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Dickinson 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.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Robert Townsend A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Eldridge Cleaver Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Bridget Riley An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
    The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Hepworth 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.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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