Conflict Quotes

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

~ Eunice Parisi-Carew

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

~ Kat O'keeffe

Enmity [Revengeful Karma] is the main seed of conflict [clash].

~ Dada Bhagwan

Our talk is right and the other person’s talk is wrong, however if a conflict occurs, then it is wrong.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Where there is conflict, there is no God.

~ Dada Bhagwan

What kind of a stage should we attain? One where our intellect becomes such that it never creates conflict within our home. Everything else is acceptable but there must never be any inner conflict.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Conflict forces us to be fully present because it shatters our ego – stripping away all hope of escape or sugar coating. It removes everything that is nonessential to our authentic being; it removes all superficial layers. Conflict is painful because it wakes us up out of our created illusions. And if we lean into it, conflict can be the catalyst to our enlightenment.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Abhorrence is the cause for conflicts. God has said, ‘Do no abhorrence. If you don’t like it, ignore it’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself---what's the expression---ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

~ Isaac Asimov

The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

~ John William Draper

The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved.

~ John Bowlby

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

~ Richard Eyre

Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

~ Nelson Mandela

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

~ Criss Jami

That’s what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting over doesn’t matter.

~ James S.a. Corey

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

~ Criss Jami

The voices of peace can’t be silenced by bombs, shootings, sieges, brutality and barbarism. Despite the challenges we face as peace-makers in a troubled region, all we want is peace and our campaign #WeWantPeace continues.

~ Widad Akreyi

The victims of Ankara peace rally sacrificed their lives for peace and their only wish was We Want Peace.

~ Widad Akreyi

Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.

~ Sarah Schulman

When you feel annoyed, when you feel pain, that's when you have the opportunity to meet and confront yourself. It is when we are most emotionally volatile that we expose our true selves. Unresolved pain, frustration and grievance come to the surface. We can let this torment and torture us, pulling us to and fro, or we can use these moments to come face to face with ourselves. Why do we feel the way we do? Why do we feel compelled to act in a certain matter. Is this serving us? Are we serving our own best interest? Is there something we could do to help ourselves? Are we exercising compassion to ourselves and others? Don't be afraid to confront or question yourself. Remember to be extra loving, patient, forgiving and kind to yourself when you are emotionally volatile. Move gently forward in cooperation with yourself.

~ Akiroq Brost

It is not what we feel that gets us in to trouble. It is how we express how we feel that causes conflict.

~ Deborrah K. Ogans

Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes

~ Ngina Otiende

We’ve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

~ Lisa Bevere

We do not fight to tear down but to build up.

~ Lisa Bevere

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.

~ Suzy Kassem

Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts.

~ Amit Ray

I've just been around long enough to see many sides of what our lovely evil boy-god Eros can be like. You see, there is a reason that Eros uses arrows to ensnare our hearts rather than strings or even chains. Because it is usually the person who is beyond our grasp, the last person we should love who pierces our heart.

~ Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.

~ Kiki Archer

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

~ Criss Jami

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

~ Salman Rushdie

The world isn’t big enough for all of us.

~ S.r. Crawford

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru