Conflict Quotes - Page 6

• The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Iraq, Administration

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• There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Mean, People

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, People, Common

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• The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

  John Henninger Reagan

  Fruit, Irrepressible

  John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”

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• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  Otto Schily

  Muslim Extremists, Hatred, West

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• In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

  Trevor Nunn

  Views, Decision, Listening

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• Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

  Amos Oz

  Religious, Eight, Israel

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Fransworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sight, Evil

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

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• Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.

  Gautama Buddha

  Struggle, Space, Sky

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• It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Band, Use

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• Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Umpires, Progress, Arbitration

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• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stress, Fiber, Strings

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• Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Philosophy, Numbers

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor: A Lifetime Collection of Favorite Jokes, Anecdotes, and Limericks with Copious Notes on how to Tell Them and why”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Brave

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• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Brother, Ambition

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• Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

  Louis Agassiz

  Truth, People, Three

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• Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.

  Albert Low

  Method, Explicit, Suppressing

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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• It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

  Bobby Darin

  Space, Anxiety, Flying

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• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Struggle, Reality, Survival

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• The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

  Amir Butler

  Reality, Security Systems, Democracy

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• The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong. Nor can it pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

  Alva Myrdal

  Strong, Men, Roots

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

  Anthony Eden

  War, Egypt, Armed Conflict

  1956 On the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 4 Nov.

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• Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

  John Ashcroft

  Law, Privacy, Constitution

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• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, African Union

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• I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.

  Jan Egeland

  Thinking, Challenges, Hopeless

  IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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