Conflict Quotes - Page 28

• A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Titles, Asking

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and the invader, who usually has overwhelming power, loses because they can't fight the political war.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Fighting, Political

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Space, Peaceful

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."

  Howard Rheingold

  Real, Technology, People

  Source: medium.com

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• I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.

  Barack Obama

  Destiny, Russia, Ukraine

  Source: time.com

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• On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe and that a negotiated end to the conflict is the only way to achieve lasting peace in Syria.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, Way, Humanitarian

  Source: time.com

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Order, Creative

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Creativity, Buddhism, People

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Creativity, Buddhism

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• It's rare that you have a conflict and two people or two groups who are equally mature in their desire or capacity to get there. That doesn't mean it can't happen. What it means is that one person has to take the lead, has to be bigger. I call that kind of person the new first responder.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Two, People

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  People, Brave, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, wbaa.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

  Susan Rice

  Spring, War, Government

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• [Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  War, Responsibility, Hands

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

  John Burroughs

  Law, Nuclear, Use

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• Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

  Kofi Annan

  Sides, Action, Tough

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• The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, America, Allies

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The president can't have a conflict of interest.

  Donald Trump

  President, Interest, Conflict Of Interest

  Source: www.bbc.com

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• I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Humanity, World, Apologizing

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule.

  Graham Taylor

  Baseball, Growing Up, Team

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• Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.

  John Lewis

  Jobs, Cutting, Media

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.

  Reince Priebus

  Running, Jobs, Perspective

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It's important to understand that the president [Donald Trump] is now entering a world of public service. He's going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices. He's going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world.

  Reince Priebus

  Sacrifice, Men, Risk

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Law, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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