Conflicts Quotes

• The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Create
  • Conflict
  • Policies

• Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Sometimes
  • Personalities
  • Conflicts

• I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

  

  Ben Cross
  • Actors
  • Complete
  • Athletes

• We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see how child rearing patterns produce nurturing adult behaviors.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Societies
  • Nurturing
  • Behaviors

• I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Attention
  • Conflicts
  • Affluence

• One of the most significant patterns established by those who were emotionally abused in childhood is based on what is called the “repetition compulsion”—an unconscious drive to repeat the same type of abusive relationship we ourselves experienced as a child in an attempt to accomplish a new outcome. The repetition compulsion compels us to transfer our longings, conflicts, and defenses from the past onto the present in an attempt to undo the past.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Childhood
  • Defenses

• The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

  

  Alan Sokal
  • Society
  • Conflicts
  • Relativists

• A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Lives
  • Conflicts

• One thing about our show that wasn't even in my awareness, but was brought to my attention by other people, is that our show is about these love-based relationships. Even though the characters are obviously going through different conflicts, you can really feel that the characters love each other. And they really try their best.

  

  Steve Zissis
  • Show
  • Relationships
  • Conflicts

• Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

  

  Neil T Anderson
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Conflicts

• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Book
  • Bible
  • Human Beings

• I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

  

  Judy Sheindlin
  • Stress
  • Resolve
  • Conflicts

• We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Reach
  • Reaching
  • Conflicts

• By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • People
  • Nations
  • Talented

• An individual or a couple can remain locked in a prison of conflict, humiliation, fear, and anger for years without realizing that they are in an emotionally abusive relationship. Often, emotional abuse between couples is denied, made light of, or written off as simple conflicts or “love-spats” when in fact one or both partners are being severely damaged psychologically.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Relationship
  • Anger
  • Prison

• It is far easier and more effective - and not just in terms of cost - to prevent conventional conflicts than to intervene after an eruption of violence.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Easier
  • Effective
  • Intervene

• When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Observation
  • Conflicts
  • Specifications

• There can be legal conflicts over whether registering intent is enough to qualify you as an organ donor or whether a doctor must still ask your family's permission.

  

  Richard Thaler
  • Family
  • Permission
  • Whether

• Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention".

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Pride
  • Families
  • Spirit of the Lord

• If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Truth
  • Change
  • Beliefs

• I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
  • United States
  • Rhetoric
  • Conflicts

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