Conflict Quotes

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.