Conflict Quotes
Bryant McGill
Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.
4576Lao Tzu
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
1328 Donzella Michele Malone
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
2108 Richelle E. Goodrich
Life is a book that someone else is reading - and you, a key character - hence
the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
4294 A.G. Phillips
Peace cannot be achieved; they have to be plucked out of their pod.
4148 Anthony Liccione
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?
1841 Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
1606 Dannika Dark
Maybe fire and kerosene don't go together for a reason.
3719 Rachel Ward
Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world - to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.
3976 Bryant McGill
Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.
2694 Amy Carmichael
If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me; if I cannot rest under misunderstanding without defending myself if I love to be loved more than to love...then I know nothing of Calvary love.
4422 Christy A. Campbell
She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?
4899 Christy A. Campbell
How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?
2621 Elizabeth Gilbert
But it is my understanding that the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it. As long as even two souls are locked in conflict, the whole of the world is contaminated by it.
1459 Holly Black
I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
2487 Dorothy Thompson
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
3440 Mahatma Gandhi
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
1221 Mary Midgley
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.
4842 Ramana Pemmaraju
I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!
1316 Ozzie Zehner
Peace is not an easy prospect-it requires greater bravery than does conflict.
4167 Horace Mann
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
4745 Charles F. Glassman
The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: “I’m right; you’re wrong.
1708 David Levithan
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
3820 Arzum Uzun
In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
3230 Susan Cain
Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never “bite” or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she’s terribly guilty - of something, anything, who knows what?
2660 Vironika Tugaleva
In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
3297 Hannah Fry
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
4598 Grove Karl Gilbert
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
2621 L. Ron Hubbard
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
2243 Kate Johnson
I violently dislike you,' she said, and then she was gone, slamming the door and leaving a sort of shocked silence behind.
2209 Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
2522 Suzette Boon
Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
3232 John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
2670 Christopher Hitchens
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
1262 Ralph Miliband
All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.
2600 Aspen Baker
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
1625 H.G. Wells
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the public mind.
4080 Michael Bassey Johnson
When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.
4060 Ashly Lorenzana
No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
2549 Salman Rushdie
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
4798 Nagaru Tanigawa
On the surface, humans appear to hate conflict, but in reality, they seek it.
1248 Audre Lorde
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
2733 Terry Goodkind
Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.
4618 Edward Rutherfurd
So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.
2773 Hermann Hesse
The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
1652 Bō Jinn
Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires security. Security demands war. All war is the macrocosmic residue of neural synapses struggling to maintain their rhythm.
4215 Michael Bassey Johnson
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
3825 Kazuo Ishiguro
Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.
3395 Arundhati Roy
If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.
4570 Sara Nović
...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.
2951 Dalton Trumbo
An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will never be born (the last we can afford: there are too many starving children in the world already).
2431 Widad Akrawi
Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
1164 Widad Akrawi
I will follow anyone...
And remind everyone...
Of enslaved Yazidi women...
Raped...
And forced...
To donate blood to ISIS men...
1680 Widad Akrawi
I will follow anyone...
And tell everyone...
How grateful I am...
To the Western nations.
2803 Jared Brock
I believe that people are holy because they’re made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present - but no place is so holy that it’s worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.
1368 Widad Akrawi
You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!
1102 Widad Akrawi
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
3028 K.A. Gunn
Let the enemy fall by their swords. Words not worth reading die their own death. But our Words will be Told!
2053 Widad Akrawi
I Will Follow Anyone
And Tell Everyone
How They Abduct...
And Torture Children
In the Name Of Religion
1427 Leon Kukkuk
The end of superpower patronage to client movements worldwide created a power vacuum whose inevitable results included the spread of violence and the emergence of disparate groups, ostensibly fighting in the name of ideology, religion or ethnicity, but now seeking their finance through local taxes, plunder and pillage.
3371 Soldier
He was a soldier, ad if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.
1926 Widad Akrawi
SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION!
GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS!
4824 Widad Akrawi
YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
1142 Widad Akrawi
ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE
1411 Widad Akrawi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN
4738 Widad Akrawi
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
4262 Widad Akrawi
IT’S ALL CLEAR
ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE
YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR
BUT DON'T WORRY
TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE
RESTORING LIVES NEAR
1091 Widad Akrawi
WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
4810 Khaled Hosseini
Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...
1269 Widad Akrawi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN
3382 Widad Akrawi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.
3441 Widad Akrawi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
3083 Widad Akrawi
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE
1256 Widad Akrawi
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
3752 Widad Akrawi
Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!
2265 Paulo Freire
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
1485 Widad Akrawi
When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.
3590 Hiroshi Sakurazaka
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don’t coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
2738 Widad Akrawi
Peace requires the provision of a platform for discussion and the exchange of information on matters and activities relevant to the prevention of armed violence.
1372 David G. Jones
The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!
2267 Lesslie Newbigin
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
2028 Bryant McGill
There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.
4124 John William Draper
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.
4985 Patrick N. Allitt
If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict is usually the struggle of different conceptions of what is good.
1645 G.K. Chesterton
...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.
4535 Mark Kurlansky
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.
3808 Catherine Lacey
[...] I went back to arguing with my husband and he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts and it made me even angrier that he didn't know about my face-stabbing thoughts, that he couldn't just intuit these things, look into my eyes and know that the way he spoke to me was a plain waste of our life [...]
2893 Sukant Ratnakar
Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.
4206 Terry Hayes
The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.
1381 Abraham Maslow
... in a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
2962 Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
4041 Jean-Yves Leloup
In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73)
1922 Richard Eyre
Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
1567 Vironika Tugaleva
Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently.
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