Conflict Quotes - Page 9

• Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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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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• Relationship is action, is it not? Action has meaning only in relationship; without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action. The ideology, the pattern for action, prevents action. Action based on ideology hinders the understanding of relationship between man and man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Understanding, Levels, Action

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

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• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  Oscar Wilde

  War, Long, Political

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• Communism is in conflict with human nature.

  Ernest Renan

  Human Nature, Communism, Humans

  "Les apôtres". Book by Ernest Renan, 1866.

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• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Needs

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• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Law, Understanding

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Appreciation, Fighting, Two

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• The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

  William Thomas Walsh

  Heart, Mind, Desire

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• For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

  John le Carre

  Political, Description, Involved

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• I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Praise, Participating

  Inter arma Caritas, Journal de Genève, October 30, 1914.

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• When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anger, Suffering, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

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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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• Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Love, Reflection, Reflexes

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• Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

  Allison Janney

  Drama, Republican, Democrat

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• Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

  Garry Shandling

  Relationship, Commitment, Love Is

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• When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Believe, Mean, Offending

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

  Ariel Sharon

  Peace, Idaho, Steps

  Ariel Sharon's speech at the Herzliyya Institute of Policy and Strategy, news.bbc.co.uk. December 18, 2003.

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• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Race, Religion, Emigration

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• I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

  Robert Ludlum

  Battle, Individual, Ideology

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