Conflict Quotes - Page 19

• Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.

  Immortal Technique

  Years, Long, Schedules

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Christian, Egypt, Baha

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's a mistake to think that God has conflict with anything. He's everything. So the more close you are to God, how can you be in conflict with anybody? Conflict comes from ego, and from thinking, "I'm right and you're wrong." If I can reach the point where I understand that what is right for me may be different than what is right for you, that would be a good step. But most people don't reach that point, and so they fight about it.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

  Peter Drucker

  Wicked, Income, Needs

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• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Men, Good Man

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1779). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.312

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• If people just asked: "Here are the needs of both sides, here are the resources. What can be done to meet these needs?" the conflict would be easy to resolve.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Would Be, Needs

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• The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Children, Divorce, Problem

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• If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Views

  "Scientists Meditate On Happiness" by Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. September 16, 2003.

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• This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and Joan Didion. Compression, saying as little as possible, making everything carry much more than is actually said. Conflict. Dialogue as part of an ongoing world, not just voices in a dark room. Never say the obvious. Skip the meet and greet.

  Janet Fitch

  Dark, Voice, People

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• Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fiction, Versus

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• The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

  Aristotle

  Hero, Destiny, Tragedy

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• Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

  James Madison

  Party, Rights, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.47, Coventry House Publishing

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

  Namkhai Norbu

  Real, Roots, Suffering

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• Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

  Paul Tournier

  Blue, Years, Vitality

  Paul Tournier (1965). “The Healing of Persons”, HarperCollins

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• When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Steps, Minutes, Terrible

  "Sympathy for the devil" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Trying, Unhappy

  "Sympathy for the devil" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

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• Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

  Aristotle

  Law, Way, Earning

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• Congratulations to Bill and Hillary Clinton: this weekend, 33rd wedding anniversary. How about that? And you thought the Iraqi war was a never-ending conflict.

  David Letterman

  Congratulations, War, Wedding Anniversary

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• The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.

  Deborah Tannen

  Agreement, People, Mind

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• Ah, paths of the soul, mysterious ways of the heart! One must walk their full lengths before facing the supreme equation of Eternal Life. It is essential for you to live all their conflicts and to know them fully in the long process of spiritual ascension.

  Andre Luiz Moreira

  Spiritual, Heart, Long

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• How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

  John McCain

  Exercise, Order, Enemy

  "Cohen: U.S. casualties likely in NATO campaign". www.cnn.com. April 15, 1999.

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• ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Communication, Interesting

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.

  Thomas Merton

  Teaching, Darkness, Serious

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.182, Macmillan

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• Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.

  Nelson Mandela

  Heart, People, Support

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• Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

  Segolene Royal

  Years, Today, Violence

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