Quotes about Conflict
You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!
- Ernest Cline
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- Ernest Hemingway
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
- Euripides
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
- Euripides
Oh ! the blessed confessors of the kingdom of Christ, who were tried like gold in the excellence of their righteousness, and obtained through the conflict in which they were set the heavenly life of angels, and laid hold upon the promises of the hidden good things of the victory of the high calling--For eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what God has prepared for them that love him.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
- Wayne Dyer
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
- Jimmy Carter
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- Virginia Woolf
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
- Bill Clinton
The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It's also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phony.
- Bill Clinton
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
- Bill Gates