Conflict Quotes - Page 3

• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

  Allen Tate

  Drama, Mean

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.

  Douglas Conant

  Healing, Way, Behave

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2017

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• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.

  Aga Khan IV

  Religious, Agree Upon, Space

  Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.

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• If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions

  Radhanath Swami

  Giving, Soul, Mind

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• To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Honesty, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

  Garth Brooks

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Reality

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• 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.

  Michael Haneke

  Drama, Issues, Trying

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• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Wheat

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• Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

  Stephen Gardiner

  War, Rose, England

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• We belong to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Healing

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.330, Image

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• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Lying, Expression

  "Gilbert v. Minnesota, 254 U.S. 325, 338". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

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• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Emotional, Thinking

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• The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

  Herbert Croly

  Political, Triumph, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

  Pierre Corneille

  Motivational, Success, Fighting

  'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

  "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche".

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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Sides, Moments

  James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”

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• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Wangari Maathai

  Future, Rights, Vision

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• Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Helping, Moral

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• The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Umpires, Two

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Wisdom, Thinking

  Ernest Jones, Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman (1995). “Salt and the alchemical soul: three essays”, Spring Pubns

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• For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Media, Long

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Paul Weyrich

  Enemy, Faces, Unusual

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• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Earthquakes, Sick, Around The World

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