Conflict Quotes - Page 8

• But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Self, Civilization, Giving

  Herbert Butterfield (1953). “Christianity, Diplomacy and War”, London : Epworth Press

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• The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

  Peter DeFazio

  Years, Common, Shia

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• The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Months, Victim, Darfur

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• If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Care, Interest, My Own

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Anger, School, Differences

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• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

  Martin Buber

  Men, Silence, Soul

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

  Juan Cole

  Aunt, People, Middle East

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• It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

  Curt Weldon

  Disability, Remove

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• In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Religious, War, Reality

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• The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

  Robert Toombs

  Men, Doors, Dignity

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• The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

  Margaret Gatty

  Enough Time, Too Short, Enough

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

  Daniel Pipes

  Giving Up, War, Sides

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• What people need and what they want may be very different.

  Elbert Hubbard

  People, Different, Needs

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

  John Yoo

  President, Conventions, Commanders

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

  Ignazio Silone

  Finals, Communist, Exes

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• The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

  Leland Stanford

  Real, Two, Ifs

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict

  Bridget Riley

  Artist, Mixtures, Made

  Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn

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• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thinking, Giving, Satisfaction

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.39, University of Georgia Press

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• True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Literature

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• You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

  Princess Diana

  Comfort, Comfortable

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