Conflict Quotes - Page 5

• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Duplicity, Dishonesty

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Ron Paul

  Play, America, Roles

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• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fall, Desire, Vertigo

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• Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Strength, Weakness, Vanquish

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• It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Two, Toil

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1860). “Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois: Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc., Also the Two Great Speeches of Mr. Lincoln in Ohio, in 1859, as Carefully Prepared by the Reporter of Each Party and Published at the Times of Their Delivery”, p.234

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• The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and as a consequence, I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now.

  Ralph Merkle

  Thinking, Firsts, Abundance

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

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• Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Play, Leader, Social

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.397, Open Road Media

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• Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

  Mother Jones

  Education, Down And, Educate

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• The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Religion, Lines

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

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• Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

  Allen Tate

  Doe, Fundamentals, Serious

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

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• Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Peace, Honesty, Powerful

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, p.122, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.

  Melanie Klein

  Baby, Hate, Mind

  Melanie Klein (1975). “The Writings of Melanie Klein: Love, guilt and separation and other works”

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• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  Randall Terry

  Scripture, Christianity

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Xenophobia, Hate, Moving

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists.

  Porter Goss

  Iraq, Causes, Extremist

  "CNN Live at Daybreak", www.cnn.com. February 17, 2005.

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• There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

  Thomas Jordan Jarvis

  School, Men, Bars

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• Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.

  Vito Fossella

  Government, People, Information

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• And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Choices, Engagement, Indifference

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  Randall Terry

  Squares, Scripture, Orthodox

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• The President of Iran has called for the destruction of Israel and the West and has even denied the holocaust took place. Iran and its terrorist arm Hezbollah are responsible for the current conflicts between Israel and Lebanon.

  Michael McCaul

  Israel, Iran, Holocaust

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• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  Xunzi

  Nature, Giving, Criminals

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• One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

  Amos Oz

  Sea, Secret, Facts

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• I don't like conflict.

  Nigella Lawson

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• My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Eye, Thinking, Church

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