Conflict Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Conflict.
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“Class conflict”
“Conflict of interest”
“All human conflict is ultimately theological.”
“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.”
“Wikipedia: Conflict”
“There are … no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
“A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a man who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife.”
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.”
“Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.”
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.”
“When the special theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts… I used to go away for weeks in state of confusion.”
“It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.”
“… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.”
“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”
“Conflict will never be eliminated from human affairs. Conflict is simply the active expression of difference, and an essential part of human development. Without conflict change would be impossible.”
“No matter how frequently you visit the realm of dreams, you will inevitably confront the unvarnished truth. However, our truth is so much bitter that not even the entirety of the world's sugar can sweeten it.”
“He who understands the limits of life knows how easy it is to procure enough to remove the pain of want and make the whole life complete and perfect. Hence he has no longer any need of things which are not to be won save by labor and conflict.”