Conflict Quotes - Page 14

When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.

Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

You will be most effective when members can compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.

We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.

[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.

If you're not listening, you're not learning.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Peace of the sort that brings wholeness, harmony, and health to our lives only happens when chaos, confusion, and conflict are included and transcended.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the trouble he had with the peer reviewers of Anglo-American astrophysical journals because his ideas often conflicted with the generally accepted or “standard"” theories.]

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

Besides problems of traditional societies, the Caucasus has to cope with quite a few unsettled territorial conflicts that also nurture authoritarian governmental structures.

Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.