488 Conflict Quotes for You to Enjoy

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands. Robert Toombs

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude. Robert Winston

Great Man Conflict Giving Odds Other Our Ourselves Would Seeds Morale Only Purpose Had Genes Built Survived Common Which Against Fortitude Deep Groups Each Fought Creature Competitive Savannah

I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen. Robert Zemeckis

Time Conflict Big Constant About Having Small Make Stylistically Same Just Same Time Screen Movie Large Basically

There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not. Romola Garai

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building. Russell Smith

Character Son Conflict Ugly Picture Building Books Ninja About Picture Books Smashing Another Dull Models Hulk Stories After Craves Transformers Interesting Fantastic Interesting Stories Page Show Creature Resolution

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Salman Rushdie

Conflict Fear Fall Between Falling Vertigo Desire

There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must. There isn't any conflict in my mind. Sebastian Junger

Life You Conflict Ethics Mind Value Situation Must Journalistic None Any Human Transcend Where Human Life Save

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. Shimon Peres

Today Conflict Matter East Generations Cultures Middle Middle East

Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world. Silas Weir Mitchell

Character You Conflict World Ramifications Broader Make Because Got Lot Going Really Choices Internal Fun Play Inner

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. Simon Mainwaring

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists. Sophie Hunger

Today Conflict School Invention Finished Took Everything Way Pleasure Find Some Invented Point Shape Had True Nobody Identity Accepting Been Exists Realised Really Initially Suddenly Fundamental Thing

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. Sophie Swetchine

Alone Strength Conflict Weakness Born Vanquished Knows

Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion. Stanley A. McChrystal

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling. Stanley B. Prusiner

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. Stephen Gardiner

War Conflict Had Until Been Up Roses England

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war. Stephen Kinzer

War Conflict World Passion Civil Classic Civil War Had Since Around Provoked Intense Interest Spanish International

Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity. Steven Pinker

Change Conflict Ideology Resource Bad Scarcity More Could Misery Leading Armed Without Climate Climate Change Governance Lot Than Depends Which Produce Large-Scale Waste Necessarily

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. Steven Spielberg

Conflict Nothing Other Israeli-Palestinian Each

In the midst of conflict, I was pushed to step forward. There were groups who wanted to change our leadership immediately. Some tried to force me to take over, but I rejected them. Suharto

The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian people learned that imperialism was historically wrong, they set up a revolution in 1917 and overthrew imperialism at home. They then negotiated for peace separately with Germany. Sun Yat-sen

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Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do. Suraj Sharma

You Conflict Everyone Inside Between Want Them Should

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