Conflict Quotes

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

~ Matthew Rhys

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

~ Dennis Ross

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

~ Jay Baruchel

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

~ Ernest Renan

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

~ Michel Foucault

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

~ Henry Norris Russell

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

~ Ray Kurzweil

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

~ William Ellery Channing

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

~ David Lynch

From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

~ David Lindsay-Abaire

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

~ Thomas Jane

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

~ Brad Pitt

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

~ Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

~ Salman Rushdie

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

~ Christopher Lasch

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

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

~ Noam Chomsky

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

~ Max De Pree

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

~ Michael Franti

I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

~ S. Truett Cathy

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

~ Pam Grier

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

~ Sufjan Stevens

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

~ Margaret Heffernan

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

~ Émile Coué

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

~ Jason Scott Lee

I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

~ Rand Paul

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

~ David D. Burns

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

~ Steven Wright

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

~ Salman Rushdie

Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

~ Sheri Fink

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

~ Martin Luther King

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

~ Aidan Gillen

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

~ Edward Norton

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

~ George Carey

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

~ Patrick Lencioni

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

~ Brad Garrett

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin