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

Quotes by Paulo Freire

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.

Quotes by Paul Weyrich

In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

Quotes by Paul Singer

If the Muslim is Sharia-compliant, that is in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution.

Quotes by Paul Nehlen

Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.

Quotes by Paul Greengrass

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

Quotes by Patricia Briggs

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Quotes by Park Geun-hye

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Quotes by Otto von Bismarck

I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

Quotes by Ori Gersht

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

Quotes by Nick Petrie

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

Quotes by Nicholas Kristof

I'm just very interested, fascinated, heartbroken, obsessed with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and our need to find peace on that front... Everyone's always, like, victim and avenger at the same time.

Quotes by Nathan Englander

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

Quotes by Nancy Kress

The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

Quotes by Naftali Bennett

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

Quotes by Najib Mikati

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Quotes by Nadine Labaki

Only by addressing the root causes of conflict and disputes can we hope to find lasting peace in a just and equitable world.

Quotes by Mwai Kibaki

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Quotes by Monica Ali

I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.

Quotes by Molly Crabapple

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Quotes by Molly Ivins

Conflict does not lead to stability in the world.

Quotes by Mohammed Morsi

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Quotes by Mo Rocca

I wish to pay attention to what we can do better to prevent conflict. Because by avoiding conflict, we save human lives, and we also save money.

Quotes by Miroslav Lajcak

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

Quotes by Mike Judge

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

Quotes by Michael Wolff

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy as a Jewish state and end of claims and end of conflict.

Quotes by Michael Oren

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

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.

Quotes by Michael Haneke

Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

Quotes by Melonie Diaz

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Quotes by Melvil Dewey

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.

Quotes by Mel Gibson

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

Quotes by Meg Ryan

The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina.

Quotes by Mauricio Macri

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Quotes by Matthew Simpson

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.

Quotes by Matthew Pearl

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.

Quotes by Matthew Heineman

Mediators do not choose the conflicts they became involved in, but the parties to the conflict choose the mediator. Their participation as intermediaries is based on the trust of all the conflicting parties.

Quotes by Martti Ahtisaari

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

Quotes by Martti Ahtisaari

Bill Clinton was one of the greatest presidents that we've seen. He was involved in the peace process in the very beginning, and he not only showed himself to be knowledgeable about Irish history and Irish-British relationships, but also he was very sympathetic to the idea of resolving conflict.

Quotes by Martin McGuinness

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

Quotes by Martin Gore

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

Quotes by Martin Dempsey

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Quotes by Martin Buber

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

Quotes by Mark Meadows

In my day, we had mastered high-intensity conflict, which is why I think we were so successful in Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and then eventually the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Quotes by Mark Esper

The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.

Quotes by Mark Esper

In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

Quotes by Margo Jefferson

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

Quotes by Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Quotes by Margaret Heffernan

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Quotes by Marcello Mastroianni

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

Quotes by Mandy Patinkin

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

Quotes by Malcolm-Jamal Warner

A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.

Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.

Quotes by Lynsey Addario

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

Quotes by M. Esther Harding

Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.

Quotes by Luke Roberts

Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

Quotes by Lobsang Tenzin

I was a huge Wu-Tang fan, along with Crucial Conflict, along with Do or Die along with Mobb Deep.

Quotes by Lil Rel Howery

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Quotes by Li Peng

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

Quotes by Leon Jouhaux

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

Quotes by Leland Stanford

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

Quotes by Leland Stanford

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Quotes by Laila Robins

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

Quotes by Kit Bond

Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.

Quotes by Ken Howard

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

Quotes by Ken Loach

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

Quotes by Ken Ham

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

Quotes by Kathleen Hanna

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

Quotes by Juan Cole

Competition doesn't have to be conflict.

Quotes by Joseph Dunford

There is no conflict in the world that cannot be solved.

Quotes by Jonathan Powell

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

Quotes by Jonathan Haidt

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Quotes by Jon Landau

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

Quotes by Jon Landau

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

Quotes by John Yoo

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

Quotes by John Yoo

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.

Quotes by John Prendergast

I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

Quotes by John Mackey

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

Quotes by John Mahoney

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

Quotes by John King

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Quotes by John Jay Chapman

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Quotes by John Hench

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Quotes by John H. Reagan

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Quotes by John Avlon

I love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

Quotes by Joelle Carter

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Quotes by Joe Lieberman

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

Quotes by Jessica Ennis-Hill

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Quotes by Jeremy Gilley

Under well-settled legal principles, lethal force against a valid military objective, in an armed conflict, is consistent with the law of war and does not, by definition, constitute an 'assassination.'

Quotes by Jeh Johnson

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

Quotes by Jay Baruchel

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

Quotes by Jason Scott Lee

Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.

Quotes by Jared Cohen

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

Quotes by Jared Cohen

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