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Conflict Quotes

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Conflict Compromise End You Want

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

Past King Conflict Blame Ending

I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.

History Conflict Think Literature Us

The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.

War Conflict Story Three Civil War

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

People Conflict Slavery Think Help

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

Garry Shandling

I Am Conflict Crisis React Human Am

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.

Conflict Society Present Violence

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Cynthia Breazeal

Fear Science Culture Conflict Think

I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.

Winnie Byanyima

Time Childhood Conflict Violence Up

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Abdullah II of Jordan

Intelligence Conflict American Look

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

Conflict Early President His Applied

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Conflict Trying Point Where Between

Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.

Family Women Time War Conflict Bear

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Respect Peace Anger School Conflict

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

War Conflict World Rest Reality

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

Father Conflict Important Guidance

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Conflict Think Person Sure Met Any

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.

Good Great Conflict Think Bad Find

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Sea Conflict Deep Secrets Down Same

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

Home Day Conflict Fly Fall Back

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.

Responsibility Conflict Bear Fragile

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

History Conflict Facts American

If you're in government, that's one of the one things you have to do is to always avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

Government Conflict You Appearance

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Life People Conflict Story Now Say

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