Quotes about Conflict

I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

Do not expect consistency. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." (Atlas Shrugged)

We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another—if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.

In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive?

The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.