Best conflict & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Selected essays

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.”

“I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels.”

Ifs World Ideas Theory One Day Conflict Angel Harder Everyday Angle Disregard

Author:Jewel

“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”

“The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.”

Ifs Needs Should Humans Ideas Grows Interest Justice Mankind Conflict Conflict Of Interest

Book:Essays in Social Justice

Source: Essays in Social Justice

“I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general.”

Thinking Important Ideas Games Theory Conflict

Author:Robert Aumann

“This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what we're fighting out there. We're fighting an insanely fundamentalist mentality that relies on taking certain things absolutely literally, and they're people on both sides of the conflict doing that. Even now, some people still take the Bible literally, and those are the ones wanting to fight a war against Islam.”

People Trying Mind Stills Ideas War Certain Fighting Sides Conflict Ultimate Islam Rely Mentality Both Sides Conservatism Fundamentalist

Author:Immortal Technique

“The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.”

World Ideas Country Political Evil Force Responsibility Leader Moral Military Conflict Solutions Raised Scared Solve Our Country Political Leaders Moral Responsibility True Evil

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.”

People Ideas Ability Opinion Habit Conflict Discussion Civilized Speakers

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.”

People Book Ideas School Reading Conflict Creatures High School Australia Exposed Apes Literal Genesis Textbooks Ham Book Of Genesis

Author:Ken Ham

“The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.”

Kind Ideas Values Conflict Method Fundamentals Permanent Mistaken Science And Religion Investigating

Author:Carroll Quigley

“Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Ideas Easier Conflict Therapy Behave Resolve Realistic Cognitive Cognitive Therapy Professional Relationships

Author:David D. Burns

“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”

People Ideas Facts Poor Powerful Rich Building Conflict Misery Endless Gaps Recipes Rich And Poor Building Up

Author:Robert Wyatt

“The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.”

Ideas Reason Belief Business Conflict Diversity Trade Meetings Comparison Customs Superstitions Rivals Begets Crossroads Attrition

Book:The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

Source: The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization

“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.”

Children Persons Ideas Problem Today Mother Individual Women Work Careers Century Conflict Guilt Currents Defined Men Women Being A Woman Nineteenth Century Being A Mother Malaise

Author:Sandra Scarr

“The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.”

Men Mind Firsts Ideas War Ends America Order Nations Economic Military Conflict England Rose Civil War Founding Clash Colony Feudalism Economic Order Raleigh

Author:J. F. C. Fuller

“There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche... There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket "religion" or the supermarket "art" toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket "science." Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a "rational" or scientific age.”

“I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.”

Way Writing Stills Ideas Stories Rooms Conflict Pages Discovery Fairs Plenty Submit Publishers Ahead Of Time Synopsis

Author:Julie Klassen

“I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.”

Thinking World Kind Ideas Country Common Wonderful Possibility Conflict Unions Hopeful Cooperation European Union Interdependence Common Ground Individualization

Author:Tavis Smiley

“Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.”

Mean Ideas Different War Sometimes Democracy Conflict Knives Involving Different Ideas

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.”

Ideas Kings Periods Conflict Happenings Research Rebellion Territory Wales Being Authentic

Author:Kurt Sutter

“When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.”

People Heart Ideas Helping Issues Focus Listening Conflict Solutions Winner Workplace Respect Each Other

Author:Gary Chapman

“It's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal... People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women.”

People Needs May Ideas Stupid Terrible Conflict Very Good Hungry Heal Evolve Desperate Good Ideas Outsiders Insulting Not Stupid

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that there is one person in each body, but in some ways we are each more like a committee whose members have been thrown together to do a job, but who often find themselves working at cross purposes.”

Way Needs Mind Persons Has Beens Important Ideas Sometimes Body Together Jobs Purpose Psychology Conflict Members Crosses Assuming Thrown Divided Committees

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.”

Needs Ideas States Age United United States Conflict Majors Agree Rhetoric

Author:Bernard-Henri Levy

“If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.”

Ifs Men Ideas Individual Left Moral Opinion Groups Judging Conflict Judgment Absolutes Finals Appeals Moral Judgment Conflicting Opinions

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.”

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.”

World Long Ideas Self Kids Wanted Acting Conflict Decided Pursue Going Out Better Place Self Centered Diplomats

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.”

Writing Ideas Voice Interest Pay Accepting Progress Industry Conflict Models Research Absolutes Fuel Our Relationship Minimum Fossils Fossil Fuel Conflict Of Interest Research And Writing

Author:Alex Epstein

“There is an idea in Kabbalah that the creation of the world is created through space. God is an ever present Being, and in order for anything outside of Him to exist, like this world for example, there needs to be what's called a TumTum[a], or a withdrawal of Godly-like. And that withdrawal happens not by connection but actually by separation. Conflict. And in the gap of that conflict is where the world is situated. That's where the world is created and lived.”

World Needs Ideas Happens Order Space Example Creation This World Conflict Connections Separation Gaps Godly Withdrawal Kabbalah Creation Of The World

Author:Matisyahu

“Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Ideas Able Past Lines Mistake Example Divine Theory Conflict Understood Experiments Despite Data Intervention Beneficial Biologist Divine Intervention Mutation

Author:Elliott Sober

“Group selection and individual selection are just two of the selection processes that have played important roles in evolution. There also is selection within individual organisms (intragenomic conflict), and selection among multi-species communities (an idea that now is getting attention in work on the human microbiome). All four of these levels of selection find a place in multi-level selection theory.”

Humans Two Important Ideas Individual Process Community Levels Attention Roles Four Groups Theory Evolution Conflict Species Organisms Selection

Author:Elliott Sober

“Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.”

“It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that - generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they don't have a conflict.”

People Years Children Ideas Government Next Sides President Interest Situation Trump Involved Conflict

Author:Brian Ross

“In Japanese organizations, before you have a meeting and you've got an idea that you want to get across, you go talk to everyone and list them. And then the meeting, you don't do it American style where everyone gets up and advocates and conflicts and decides, you get up and formalize agreements.”

Want Ideas Style Conflict Organization Meetings Lists Get Up Agreement

Author:Howard Rheingold

“[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.”

People Ideas Political Enemy Violence Conflict Arguing Celebrate Dissent Putin

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“Truth affirms freedom of speech. Putin is no friend of reli - freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion. The U.S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press. Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places or ideas that are in conflict.”

People Ideas Political Enemy Violence Conflict Speech Presses Arguing Celebrate Freedom Of Speech Dissent Putin No Friends Freedom Of Religion Free Press

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“What is the influence of Sun Tzu in the world today? Perhaps there are others who are better qualified than I to speculate about that question. Sun Tzu's ideas, as expressed in his famous treatise, have undoubtedly influenced the nature of many revolutionary movements that are arrayed against more powerful forces, and in some cases - as in Vietnam - have played a useful role in bringing about success. But such ideas are always in conflict with other deepseated emotional factors, which propel dissident movements into the rampant use of terrorism and other forms of anarchistic struggle.”

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“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

“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.”

Ideas Creativity Creative Fashion Conflict Marketing Be Creative Bad Ass Creative Thinking Creativity And Innovation Creative Ideas Ideas And Creativity Inspire Creativity Conflict Of Interest Creativity And Design Conflicting Ideas

Author:Donatella Versace

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”

Needs Humans Ideas Conflict Argument Innovation Debate Good Ideas Interaction Ideas And Innovation Research And Innovation

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.”

Ideas Religion Religious Subjects Conflict Tradition Statements Fixed Science And Religion Domain Symbolic Religious Traditions

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea, and therefore there is duality, conflict, and all the rest of it. The mind has to be in the state when it can see, observe. The experience of the observation is really an astonishing state. In that there is no duality. The mind is simply - aware.”

Mind Ideas States Conflict Ideals Cease Observation Astonishing Duality

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.”

People Ideas Reality Conflict Aim Instinct Excitement Confused Diversion

Author:Dallas Willard

“Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.”

“Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers. Through the destruction, in certain countries, of the greatest of man's literary heritage, through the propagation of false ideas of racial and national superiority, the artist, the scientist, the writer is challenged. The struggle invades the formerly cloistered halls of our universities and other seats of learning. The battlefront is everywhere. There is no sheltered rear.”

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.”

Knows Mean Long Ideas Hands Past Journey Conflict Traditional Family Life Upbringing My Past Traditional Family

Author:Madonna Ciccone

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