Conflict Quotes

• Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Perspectives

• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Conflict
  • System
  • Continue

• Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Everything
  • Conflict
  • Wants

• There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Potential

• It's rare that you have a conflict and two people or two groups who are equally mature in their desire or capacity to get there. That doesn't mean it can't happen. What it means is that one person has to take the lead, has to be bigger. I call that kind of person the new first responder.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Desire
  • Conflict
  • Responders

• One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Greatest
  • Islamic

• Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Conflict

• A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Situation
  • Psychologist

• Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Comedy
  • Conflict
  • Hatred

• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Conflict

• Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Conflict
  • Where
  • Educational

• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Interesting
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Novels

• For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

  

  Michael Schur
  • People
  • Storytelling
  • Spirited

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Breakup

• I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Conflict

• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Conflict

• It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Rest

• White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Day
  • Lies

• The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Will
  • Conflict
  • Final

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

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