conflict quotes

• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. (Saul Alinsky) [change/change/conflict]
• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. (Edmund Burke) [nerves/skill/conflict/relations]
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Winston Churchill) [human/conflict]
• Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. (Eldridge Cleaver) [think/conflict]
• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. (Albert Einstein) [conflict/knowledge]
• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. (James Lowell) [moment/conflict/truth/evil]
• The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. (Andre Maurois) [life/conflict/action/action]
• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. (William McKinley) [remember/interest/conflict/]
• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. ( Plato) [take/life/conflict]
• Communism is in conflict with human nature. (Ernest Renan) [conflict/human/nature]
• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. (Margaret Thatcher) [politics/conflict/evil/willpower]
• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. (Simone Weil) [war/more/conflict]
• Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that's the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. (Alec Baldwin) [conflict]
• It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right. (Harvey Keitel) [school/conflict/right]
• “I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'” (Hope Davis) [mind/conflict/wife/housing]
• “Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.” (Pam Grier) [religion/state/conflict/gay]
• The inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more colorful. I actually can't imagine playing someone who wasn't neurotic. (Tea Leoni) [conflict/more]
• My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all. (Meg Ryan) [family/conflict/career]
• The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people. (Deborah Cox) [conflict/being/love/being]
• I'm for all of our young men and women who are serving in this conflict, it is not their fault they were sent there. (Larry Hagman) [men/women/conflict]
• Woman is also the element of conflict. (Marcello Mastroianni) [conflict]
• Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop. Woman is also the element of conflict. With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten? (Marcello Mastroianni) [sun/imagination/conflict/moment]
• “I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.” (Vanessa Marcil) [balance/conflict/more/think]
• The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. (Earl Browder) [system/conflict]
• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. (Wangari Maathai) [conflict/connection/human/democracy]
• 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. (Leon Jouhaux) [conflict]
• Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians. (Ariel Sharon) [/willpower/conflict]
• The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. (Ariel Sharon) [conflict/heavy/suffering/future]

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