Quotes about Conflict

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483—1546)

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Thomas Merton once said, "We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.

The goal in most conflicts is to destroy your opponent. The goal in apologetics is to win your opponent.

As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.