Conflict Quotes
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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
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The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yair Lapid
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
Babasaheb
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
Bayard Rustin
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
Patricia Briggs
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart
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I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby
D. J. MacHale
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
Barry Eisler
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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
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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
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
Warren Mitchell
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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
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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
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
Garry Shandling
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
Karin Slaughter
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One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
Yair Lapid
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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
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck
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In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
Yitzhak Shamir