Conflict Quotes - Page 4

• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

  James M. Barrie

  Revenge, Opponents, Motive

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Struggle, Hero, Men

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• There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

  Martin Buber

  Mean, Men, Principles

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• Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

  John Jay Chapman

  Hate, Squash, America

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.22, University of Illinois Press

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• I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

  Brian Eno

  Country, Czech Republic, People

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• When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

  Ethel Merman

  Sometimes, Corny, Trivial Things

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Rights, Dare

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• In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.

  Gijs de Vries

  Military, Rights, Lawlessness

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• Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Children, Women, Priorities

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• There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

  Phil Knight

  Life, Change, Success

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• The war existing between the senses and reason.

  Blaise Pascal

  War, Reason, Senses

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Healing, Worry, Effort

  "Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi".

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• Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Healing, Disguise

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• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  Ian Hart

  Teacher, Priests, Bounds

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

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• It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

  Mo Rocca

  Issues, Sensitive, Easier

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• Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiring, Success, Responsibility

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.24, Penguin

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• I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trying

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• Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Police, Calling, Ends

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Patriotic, Presidential

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• Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Literature, Action, Threat

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.131

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• We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

  Jim DeMint

  Past, Mature, Institutions

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• It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

  Roger Ebert

  White, People, House

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Iraq, Sake, Dominance

  "No Kidding". www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2003.

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• The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

  Frank Herbert

  Battle, Wealth, Stakes

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• Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

  John L. Lewis

  Usa, Institutions, Workers

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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