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“I think America is just so in love with conflict.”

Thinking America Conflict

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.”

World War Fall Force Cutting Happened Conflict Majors Unions Boards War Of The Worlds Vietnam Soviet World War Ii World War I Soviet Union Korea

Author:Leon Panetta

“We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”

Lying Conflict Contradiction Falsehood Disguise Dishonesty Duplicity

Book:Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works

“People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.”

People World Believe Real Shows Sides Tvs Conflict Real World Tv Shows Both Sides

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.”

Play America Roles Conflict Assuming Compromise Palestinian Involving Settlement Madison

Author:Ron Paul

“In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.”

Matter Today Culture Generations Middle Conflict East Middle East

Author:Shimon Peres

“A man convinced against his will is not convinced.”

Men Literature Atheism Conflict Convinced

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.”

Knows Persons Conflict Single Person

Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.”

Produce Depends Conflict Waste Resources Misery Climate Climate Change Scales Ideology Governance Scarcity Large Scale Armed Conflict

Author:Steven Pinker

“Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.”

Giving Doe War Ends Process Sides Conflict Giving Up Dues Resolve Diplomacy

Author:Daniel Pipes

“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.”

World Years Firsts Ideas War Country States Reality Existence Conflict Bases Israel Active Israeli Hostage Arab Israeli Conflict

Author:John Podhoretz

“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.”

People Humans Easy Poor Views Poverty Media Objects Conflict Dignity Pity Agency Lacking Poor People Badass Human Dignity Personal Dignity American Media

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.”

Community Justice Common Poverty Rights Security Development Conflict Injustice Guarantees Evaluate Common Good Guarantees That Justice And Injustice

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.”

Humans Two Christian Values Animal Holy Conflict Areas Concern Separation Profane Humans And Animals Christian Values

Author:Dennis Prager

“Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.”

Thinking World Firsts Believe Two War Together I Believe Difficult Interest Moral Conflict Russia War Of The Worlds Tragic Allies Components Difficult Times First World War Geopolitical

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.”

Made Progress Conflict Court Submit Composition Procedures Pledge Umpires Treaties Contracting Arbitration Great Progress

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.”

Humans Two Country Seems America Forever Stage Security Development Conflict Teenager Autonomy Human Development Toddler

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.”

Should Real Stories Tears Conflict Elements Should Have Rage Heartache Chords Good Story Catharsis Dissonance

Author:Josh Radnor

“Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.”

Political Levels Policy Conflict Consequence Relation Profound International Locals Tension Phenomenon Rhetoric Mistrust Political Rhetoric

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

“I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.”

War Conflict Praise Participating

Author:Romain Rolland

“Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.”

People Inspirational Kind Made Sometimes Matter Seems Rooms Player Football Conflict Constant All Kinds Managers Load Harsh Dressings Dressing Rooms

Author:Wayne Rooney

“Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.”

Men Earth Values Given Struggle Hero Conflict Built Obstacles Chosen Heroic

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.”

“People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.”

People Real Lying Evil Conflict Good And Evil Truth And Lies

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.”

Desire Fall Conflict Vertigo

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.”

Running Emotion Behinds Darkness Doors Conflict Locked Outsiders Locked Doors Darkness Inside

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.”

Ifs World Writing Different Ends Sometimes Stories Together Given Ability Conflict Difficulty Accidents

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

“The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.”

Hard New York Scene Conflict Contradiction Gallery

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.”

World Years Art Running Romance Lying Interest Conflict Museums Artificial Dealer Art World Conflict Of Interest

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”

Giving War Peace Conflict Anti War World War I Peace War No War World War 1

Author:Carl Sandburg

“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”

War Political Quality Dangerous Crime Positive Conflict Soldier Delight Merit Captains Remembrance Statesmen Statesmanship

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.”

Knows World Helping Happens Conflict Sick Hungry Around The World Homeless Earthquakes Drought

Author:Jan Schakowsky

“A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”

Men Want Can Do Sad Conflict Wellspring

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.”

Needs Humans Eye Individual Social Process Groups Conflict Models Sitting Scales Opening Confused Human Experience Spectators Futility Physicality Futility Of Life

Author:Will Self

“Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.”

Thinking Giving Interest Ought Conflict Satisfaction Dues Compromise Deprived Adversaries Adjustment Conflicting Ideas

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.”

People Thinking Two Might Together Grows Love Is Comedy Relationship Conflict Commitment Dating Work Out Optimist

Author:Garry Shandling

“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.”

Peace Steps Conflict Solutions Importance Palestinian Idaho

Author:Ariel Sharon

“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.”

Different Reality Together Suffering Sides Pieces Land Conflict Heavy Destined Ongoing Small Pieces

Author:Ariel Sharon

“Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.”

Self Hard Would Be Interest Company Leader Conflict Commitment Deny Managers Making Money Self Interest Business Leaders

Author:Peter Singer

“I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.”

People Thinking Trying Please Conflict Live Life Live Life To The Fullest Really Living

Author:Hope Solo

“I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Involved Conflict Jew Palestinian Sensitivity Israeli Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.”

Country Facts Conflict Conscious Labor Hammers Anvils Blacksmiths

Author:Leland Stanford

“Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.”

Wish Causes Religious Numbers Conflict Racism Manage Headlines Religious Conflict

Author:Tony Blair

“Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.”

Ifs Community Accepting Conflict International Inevitable Saddam Default Disarmament International Community

Author:Tony Blair

“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”

Doe Causes Fear Perfect Wonder Habit Conflict Angry Expected Sincerity

Author:Tacitus

“What rights are those that dare not resist for them?”

Rights Conflict Dare

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”

Believe Ends Evil Politics Belief I Believe Interesting Politician Conflict Triumph Good And Evil Good Will Iron Lady

Author:Margaret Thatcher

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