Conflict Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Ukraine, People, Today

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

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Literature

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• Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Struggle, Reason And Emotion, Ideas

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• The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Communication, Civilization, Empathy

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