Conflict Quotes - Page 3

If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly seem to conflict with every law, every human institution... even those that are not frightful, and there is not one amongst them all that cannot be demonstrated within the boundaries of nature.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

Conflict is the soul of literature.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.