Conflict Quotes - Page 7

• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

  Dick Gephardt

  Important Values, Two, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Dick Gephardt from Oct 12, 2016

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• Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

  Wayne Allard

  Real, Hero, Men

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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  R. W. Apple

  War, Glowing, Training

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• Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moving, Eras, Negotiation

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• Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Years, Soil, Violence

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• The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

  Clark Moustakas

  Men, Mind, Arena

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• I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

  Giovanni della Casa

  Men, He Man, Divine

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• Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Dangerous, Science And Religion, Foe

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• All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Self, Experience, World

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• Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and mutual respect between people of different faiths and cultures.

  Kofi Annan

  Law, People, Peaceful

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Commitment, Acceptance, Christianity

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• Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

  Vernon Howard

  Men, Self, Two

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• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

  Emile Coue

  Winning, Imagination, Will Power

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• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

  David Seabury

  Feelings, Modern, States

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• We cannot really think in one way and act in another.

  Thomas Troward

  Thinking, Way, One Way

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Honor, Groups, Indifference

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• The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

  Richard DeVos

  God, Insightful, Earth

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• The archenemy is the arch stupid!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stupid, Arches

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• Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Running, Believe, Israel

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• My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

  Tom DeLay

  War, Terrorism, Palestinian

  "Delay Leads Intense Push for Jewish Voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 01, 2004.

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• ... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Kids, Fighting

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