Conflict Quotes - Page 31

• It's never too late to try to end a conflict.

  Chris Alexander

  Trying, Too Late, Ends

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Regret, Swimming, Sea

  Source: www.chud.com

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• It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.

  Eric Holder

  Home, Self, Law

  "Holder speaks out against 'Stand Your Ground' laws after Zimmerman verdict" by Pete Williams and Tracy Connor, www.nbcnews.com. July 17, 2013.

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• For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Home, Security Systems

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.

  Ruth Simmons

  Husband, Ideas, Social Taboos

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. If something happens where I live, you see it tomorrow or perhaps even at the same time it is happening there. It's not "one world" in the sense that conflicts are resolved in the world. But we are more one world in that we know what is going on and are psychologically influenced by what goes on around us.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Children, Differences, Goes On

  Source: progressive.org

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• There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going on now for 120 years - you have a fifth generation being born into it on both sides. Such a conflict creates hatred, fears, stereotypes, and demonizations of the other. It would be an illusion to believe you can put an end to this overnight.

  Uri Avnery

  War, Believe, Average

  Source: progressive.org

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• Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Pain, Evil

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• That love is a conflict seems to me obvious and natural. There isn't a single worthwhile work in world literature based on love that is only about the conquest of happiness, the effort to arrive at what we call love. It's the struggle that has always interested those who produce works of art - literature, cinema or poetry.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Art, Struggle, Love Is

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of the terrible things it is causing is indifference.

  Amos Oz

  Long, Indifference, Terrible

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Nondiscrimination is a great American principle. It's a core American principle, as is religious freedom. When you have two important American principles coming into tension, into conflict with one another, our goal as Americans is to sit down and try to see if we can uphold both.

  Charles Haynes

  Religious, Two, Goal

  "In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values Clash". www.wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  America, Example, Guatemala

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• "The Invisible Woman" was about trying to show this conflict in [Nelly Ternan] woman truthfully, between her own identity, but also being in love with someone who I think made very high demands from her.

  Felicity Jones

  Being In Love, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• "The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.

  Felicity Jones

  Religious, Atheist, Couple

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Demand, Want

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• An Arab activist can take pride in the Arab heritage of mathematics and science or he can take pride in his religion, and there's pride to be taken in both. But one of them could be exploited much more easily and has been in the context of world conflict. And the other is very difficult to do on the grounds that science and literature and mathematics have been among the uniting factors in the history of the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Pride, Heritage

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Drama, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.89, Canongate Books

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• Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Book, Confusion, Doubt

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• You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, Mark, Right Thing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Japan, Focus, Asian

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Morning, Worst Enemy, Giving

  "Happiness as a Skill" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2017.

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• Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.

  Barbara Crampton

  Mother, Men, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Views, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our attitude is very clear. In effect there is the conflict, ideological conflict which we all know. We have stated our position in the sense of unity among socialist states - unity as a first measure.

  Che Guevara

  Attitude, Unity, Firsts

  Source: guevaristas.org

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