Clash Quotes - Page 4

• I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Civilization, Humanity

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

  Rupert Friend

  People, World, Sometimes

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

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Easter, Islands, Class

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• The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Color

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• Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Faith, Religious, Mistake

  "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution". "The American Biology Teacher", Volume 35, (pp. 125-129), March 1973.

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• We will be misguided in our intentions if we point at one single thing and say that it will prevent war, unless, of course, that thing happens to be the will, the determination, and the resolve of people everywhere that nations will never again clash on the battlefield.

  Leslie Groves

  Determination, War, Science

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• From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Gun, Useless

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.15, Bottom of the Hill

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• There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

  Sukarno

  Justice, Diversity, Body

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• Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.

  George S. Patton

  Real, War, Home

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Issues, Half

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• The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Law, Simplicity

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• We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Law, Needs, Morality

  "I Learn". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1976.

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• A man of letters is often a man with two natures,--one a book nature, the other a human nature. These often clash sadly.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Book, Men, Two

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.34

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• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

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• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.

  Miles Franklin

  Couple, Sadness, Piano

  Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press

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• Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

  John Stott

  Two, Persecution, Value Systems

  John R. W. Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1998). “The Beatitudes: Developing Spiritual Character”, Intervarsity Press

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• Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.

  Debra Evans

  Dream, Expectations, Heaven

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• Culture Clash is a national treasure.

  Philip Kan Gotanda

  Culture, Treasure, National Treasure

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• Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

  Rick Atkinson

  War, Forests

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• In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

  Adam Braun

  Priorities, Moments, Values

  Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning.

  Yuri Lotman

  Art, Two, Poetry

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• Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.

  Stephen V Monsma

  Christian, Religious, War

  Stephen V. Monsma (1995). “Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring”, Baker Publishing Group

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