Conflict Quotes - Page 10

• Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

  Ariel Sharon

  Peace, Idaho, Steps

  Ariel Sharon's speech at the Herzliyya Institute of Policy and Strategy, news.bbc.co.uk. December 18, 2003.

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• I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Two, People

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  Plato

  Plato, Combat, Earthly Desires

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.118

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• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Race, Religion, Emigration

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• 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.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

  Robert Ludlum

  Battle, Individual, Ideology

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• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational Life, Flower, Looks

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• When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Games, Care, Gamer

  Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.42, Transaction Publishers

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

  Melvil Dewey

  Worst, Eternal

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• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

  William McKinley

  Peace, Real, War

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.549, tredition

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• 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, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

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

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• One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

  Robert Collier

  Horse, Moving, Two

  Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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• A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Want

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

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Military, War, Party

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• Remember, conflict doesn’t always mean we have to fight against something and tear it apart.... Conflict can also mean we’re fighting for something to make it even better and stronger than it’s ever been.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mean, Fighting, Tears

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 05, 2016

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• The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Lonely, Frustration, Self

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• You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Divorce

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

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Dollars, Republican

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Home, Might

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Islamic, International, Traditional

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• Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

  Ahmed Yassin

  War, Land, Liberty

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, People, Atheism

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