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“I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights.”

Individual Interest Community Conflict Direct Perceive

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.”

Humans War Values Struggle Conflict Accounts Constant Human History Clash Primacy

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.”

Knows Littles Self Certain Asks Focus Conflict Actresses I Realized Vain Accomplished Self Absorbed

Author:Diane Kruger

“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”

Ifs Thinking Dream Steps Emotional Personality Conflict Madness Distraction

Author:Edwin Land

“I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.”

People Way Trying Wells Character Faces My Own Emotional Conflict Strive Destructive Surround Bores My Own Life

Author:Alan Ball

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

Conflict Immortality Stability Bob Dylan

Author:Jon Landau

“My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.”

Wells Mother Conflict Dramatic Mother Love

Author:Ang Lee

“I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.”

Way Giving Believe Problem Order Grew One Day Conflict Grew Up Harmony Solve Eastern

Author:Ang Lee

“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.”

Has Beens Conflict Labor Institutions Workers Usa Denied

Author:John L. Lewis

“Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.”

Men Cases Republican Conflict Dollars

Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.”

Heart Persons Middle Conflict Boring Turmoil Competitive Person

Author:Christian Louboutin

“Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.”

Persons Moments Evil Nations Sides Conflict Falsehood Truth And Falsehood Evil Side

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.”

Humans Kind Stories Struggle Conflict Lows All Kinds Life And Death Contrast Highs And Lows

Author:David Lynch

“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.”

Humans May Seems Today Vision Democracy Environment Rights Future Conflict Resources Connections Tragedy Environmental Human Rights Obvious Decades Sustainable Development

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition.”

Ifs Thinking Conflict Resources Management Competition Valuable Locals Distribution Scarce Scarce Resources

Author:Wangari Maathai

“You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.”

People Conflict Educate

Author:Wangari Maathai

“It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”

Ifs Love Political Powerful Conflict Humorous Witty Hustle

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”

Self Law Certain Social Democracy Duty Type Conflict Behavior Abandon Contracts Democracies Have Social Contract

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?”

Ifs Happens Conflict Supreme Parliament Scottish Westminster

Author:John Major

“Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.”

Wells Term Fields Conflict British Troops Superb

Author:John Major

“I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.”

Writing Humans Heart Stills Self Character Conflict Giants Grey Human Heart Dwarves

Author:George R. R. Martin

“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”

Nations Marriage Conflict Crisis

Author:Andre Maurois

“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”

Conflict Revenge Opponents Motive Live By

Author:James M. Barrie

“Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.”

Thinking Humans Character Conflict Internals Internal Conflict

Author:James McAvoy

“Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.”

Knows Ends Reason Turns Loses Periods Conflict

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.”

World Conflict Outside World

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.”

World Two War Security Truth Is Conflict Standing Iraq Vietnam National Security Vietnam War Iraq War Invading Iraq

Author:George McGovern

“When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.”

Sometimes Conflict Scales Corny Trivial Things

Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”

Humans Inspiring Emotional Conflict Victim

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.”

Our Lives Conflict Conscience Confusion Abiding Anchors Turmoil Daily Living Abiding Faith

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Hard Violence Hard Work Conflict Concepts Down And Privilege Compromise Arrogance Resolve Entitlement Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Michael Moore

“For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.”

People Long Country Black Media Events Conflict Long Time Convinced Black People

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.”

States House Wish Process Return Conflict Commitment Election Democratic Agreement Democratic Process Armed Conflict Lancaster

Author:Robert Mugabe

“Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.”

Fighting Social Justice Environment Republican Protect Conflict Research Social Justice Bills Democratic Males Champion Resolution Conflict Resolution Initiate Counterparts Protect The Environment

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.”

War Effects Military Higher Terrible Lessons Conflict Negative Soldier Iraq Vietnam Bloody Wounded Vietnam War Coffins Banned Depiction Lesson Learned Wounded Soldier

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.”

Way Should Years Believe Children Ends Found Speak I Believe Causes President Generations Achieve Conflict Our Children Aim Dedicated Palestinian Grandchildren Advancing Abba

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.”

Thinking Knows Giving Trying Ends States Conflict Majority Israel Get Away Palestinian Negotiation Assembly Negotiating Detours General Assembly

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.”

Men Long Has Beens War Reality Term Religious History Conflict Long Term Nature Of Man Religious Wars Religion War Religion And War Religious Conflict Causes Of Conflict

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.”

Moving Conflict Eras Negotiation Confrontation

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.”

People Heart Asks President Conflict Divides Reconciliation

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.”

People Thinking Sometimes Conflict Essentials Productions Very Happy

Author:Edward Norton

“The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.”

Should Has Beens Ends Country Conflict Method Court Alternatives Resolution Disputes Conflict Resolution Mediation Mediators

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.”

People Thinking Writing Art Events Conflict Dramatic One Direction Kernel Juncture

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.”

People Should Important Guy Effort Cutting Conflict Shoulders Cherish Traffic Rude Incidents Disagreement Involving Cashiers Resolving Conflict

Author:Joel Osteen

“There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.”

Ifs Play Character Drama Conflict Layers Grappling

Author:Clive Owen

“A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.”

People Mind Heart Ends Conflict Heart And Mind

Author:Amos Oz

“Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.”

Looks Children Two Past Parent Cases Conflict Victim Jew Oppressors

Author:Amos Oz

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

Book:The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

Source: The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes

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