Conflict Quotes - Page 34

• I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Creativity, Buddhism

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• It's rare that you have a conflict and two people or two groups who are equally mature in their desire or capacity to get there. That doesn't mean it can't happen. What it means is that one person has to take the lead, has to be bigger. I call that kind of person the new first responder.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Two, People

  "Should We Take "The Other" To Lunch?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

  Susan Rice

  Spring, War, Government

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• [Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  War, Responsibility, Hands

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

  Kofi Annan

  Sides, Action, Tough

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• The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, America, Allies

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Humanity, World, Apologizing

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• My favorite team growing up was the Cincinnati Reds. Living within 10 minutes of the ball park I went to as many games as possible growing up as long as they didn't conflict with my baseball schedule.

  Graham Taylor

  Baseball, Growing Up, Team

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• Stepping back from running [Donald Trump] positions is meaningless from a conflict of interests perspective. The presidency is a full-time job and he would have had to step back anyway.

  Reince Priebus

  Running, Jobs, Perspective

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.

  Ross W. Greene

  Honesty, Kids, Skills

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The vast majority of things parents and kids get in conflict over are highly predictable. We're disagreeing about the same expectations the kid is having difficulty meeting every hour, every day, every week. Because it's predictable, we can have these conversations proactively. That is very hard for people.

  Ross W. Greene

  Kids, People, Expectations

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.

  Judith Butler

  Soccer, Fighting, Winning

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Mean, Actors

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

  Charles Schumer

  Running, President, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Technology, Unique

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

  Garry Kasparov

  Problem, Structure, Caucasus

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Karabakh conflict has a strong influence on the political climate both in Azerbaijan and Armenia. It is obvious, too, that the Azerbaijani leadership can capitalize indefinitely on this topic to underpin its legitimacy even in a situation in which democratic institutions are virtually eliminated.

  Garry Kasparov

  Strong, Azerbaijan, Political

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• [Vladimir] Putin's Russia is only indirectly concerned with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of maintaining its sphere of influence. I doubt that Russia will meddle. Moreover, I'm quite sure that Ilham Aliyev won't decide to carry out any serious action - it's not in his interest. He's learned his lesson very well - threaten to take action but never act on such words.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mean, Russia, Azerbaijan

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• If you ask why start-ups outperform established enterprises when it comes to catching the next wave, the answer is that they are not conflicted. Everyone is rowing in the same direction. That is never the case in a company that has a portfolio of businesses at different stages in their maturity. So the key to winning there has to be to "zone out" the conflicts - sort of like sending quarrelling children each to their own room.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Children, Winning, Maturity

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

  Mark Coleman

  Pain, Games, Lenses

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Stories, Chekhov, Form

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Character, Development, Narrative

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• [Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Ideas, People, Political

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Stories, Exploration

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• The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Perception, Foundation

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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