Best conflict & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”

Years Generations Dying Scene Conflict Hundred Function Islands Empires Decay Vitality Civilisation Roman Empire Barbarism

Book:Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

Source: Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“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.”

“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Thinking Way Giving Years Believe Mean Political Social Term Party Economic Serious Conflict Years Ago Crisis Developing Revolutionary Capitalist Socialist Stagnation Socialist Party

Author:Anthony Crosland

“There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.”

“Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.”

Years Long Stills War States Government Difficult Effort Conflict Contrary Outcomes Civil War Anarchy Spinning Valiant Spinning Out Of Control

Author:Anthony Zinni

“In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.”

Years Today Serious Civilization Conflict China Humankind

Author:Zhou Shengxian

“...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.”

Years Humans Has Beens Black White Conflict Tragedy Triumph Human History Taboo Admitting Resolute Panorama

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years. But as I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family, my aunties, grandparents, is in Africa.”

Years Stories Home America Culture Sides Mom Involved Conflict My Family Raised My Mom Pops Our Family Household Grandparent Back Home Ethiopia Formative Years Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.”

Needs Writing Years Firsts Children Long Two Problem School Husband Conflict My Family Two Things My Husband Drag Bumps Youngest Child

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Kind Stories Situation Conflict Married Picks Areas Happy People Happily Married

Author:Kate Beaton

“For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.”

Years Stories Fiction Five Honesty Conflict Injustice Corruption Violent Tales Fairy Five Years Treatment Realistic Fairy Tale Bedtime Five Year Olds

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.”

“Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.”

Years Looks May War Today Next Peace Results Five Conflict Inevitable Five Years Temporary Appeasement Postponement Chamberlain

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I will get things done for America.... Faced with apathy, I will take action. Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.... Faced with adversity, I will persevere. I will carry this commitment with me this year. I am an Americorps volunteer.”

Years Done Action America Common Conflict Commitment Adversity Apathy Volunteer Persevere Things Done Common Ground

Author:William J. Clinton

“I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.”

Ifs Years Believe Children Stories Use Problem Next I Believe Sides Leader Teach Plans Generations Share Planets Conflict Mouths Tools Our Children Come Up Handle Next Generation

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.”

“The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.”

Years Faces Economy Economic Conflict Authority Tasks International Complicated Isolation Republic Devastated Yugoslavia Mismanagement

Author:Stanley Fischer

“...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a "holy war" against the West or by using the Chinese to cause global conflict. Maybe both.”

Source: Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free

“The middle years are ones in which children increasingly face conflicts on their own,... One of the truths to be faced by parentsduring this period is that they cannot do the work of living and relating for their children. They can be sounding boards and they can probe with the children the consequences of alternative actions.”

Years Children Action Faces Middle Periods Conflict Consequence Alternatives Boards

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.”

People Thinking Love Years Kind Happens Wanted Together Fall Magic Mets Husband Conflict Years Ago Falling In Love My Husband Capture Recovering Nantucket

Author:Nancy Thayer

“One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.”

Years War Next Change Conflict Resources Climate Climate Change Driving Drivers Compounds Cocktails Scarcity Displacement

Author:Ed Miliband

“People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.”

People Ifs Years Wells Looks May War States Numbers Cases Thousand Conflict Down And Average Genocide Fewer Involving Korean High Points Korean War

Author:Andrew Mack

“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"”

World Years Wells Three Asks Individual Social Religious Simple Business Conflict Years Ago Organization Thirds Affair Manage Biosphere Year One Disarray

Author:Dee Hock

“Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.”

“There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.”

Years Two Together Three Conflict Argument Vote

Author:David Zucker

“I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.”

Writing Years Long Stories Problem Conflict Inspired Good Story Happy Relationship

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.”

Years States School Nations Chance United United States Conflict Army Following Korean United States Army

Author:Don Young

“I believe the connection is growing stronger. Just to think that 40-plus years ago, service members would return from combat to get spit on by so many civilians. Regardless of what we think about a conflict, we must always honor and be grateful for those men and women who serve.”

Thinking Men Years Believe I Believe Growing Return Honor Conflict Members Men And Women Years Ago Connections Stronger Grateful Plus Combat Be Grateful Civilians Spit Growing Stronger

Author:Lee Zeldin

“If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.”

People Ifs Years Ends America Political Used Desire Race Conflict Aspiration Political Power Friction

Author:Gwen Ifill

“I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.”

People World Want Years Mind Made Lasts Goal Simple Ready Conflict Harmony Contact Around The World Buddhist Thirty Peace Of Mind Monk Thirty Years Many Friends Buddhist Monk

Author:Dalai Lama

“The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.”

“The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.”

World Years Nations United Conflict Overwhelmed Gathering United Nations Millennium

Author:David Icke

“If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms!”

Ifs World Years War Earth Remember Moving Three Next Land This World Becoming Conflict Thirds Seeds Treasure Kingdoms Triumph Finding Yourself Three Years Preparing Rise Against

Author:Chuck Pierce

“Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.”

Years Long Natural Mets Conversation Conflict Long Time Schedules Supporter

Author:Immortal Technique

“Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.”

Years Moral Subjects Conflict Blue Prepared Illness Diets Vitality Bolts Overwork Intemperance

Book:The Healing of Persons

Source: The Healing of Persons

“Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.”

Years Today Violence Worst Development Conflict Dues Rooted Disparity

Author:Segolene Royal

“They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now.”

People World Needs Years Would Be Courses Ten Conflict Ideals Chinese Sympathetic Lama Dalai Intercessors

Author:Robert Thurman

“The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.”

Way Years Reason Philosophy Problem Next Clear Century Conflict Crucial Controversy Pantheism Mendelssohn German Philosophy

Author:Frederick C. Beiser

“To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.”

Thinking Years Long Different War Ends Country Conflict Instruments Prepared Complexes Terrorism

Author:Edward Said

“On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.”

World Years Today Moving Hell Conflict Years Ago Decades Despite Thirty Hopeful Syria Thirty Years Right Direction

Author:Richard Branson

“I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?”

“If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.”

Ifs Years Age Five Worst Conflict Degrees Ruins Five Years Finishing Worst Times Raising A Family

Author:Freeman Dyson

“You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.”

Years Week Conflict Settling

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“This is not to deny that there are versions of theism that do conflict with evolutionary biology. Young Earth Creationism is an example; it claims that God created life on earth within the past 10,000 to 50,000 years. But other types of theism are different.”

Years Different Earth Past Young Example Type Conflict Claims Deny Versions Biology Theism Creationism Evolutionary Biology

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

“A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"”

“America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we have done in the Middle East are contributing to a potential explosion region-wide. And if that explosion gets out of hand, we may end up being bogged down for many years to come in a conflict that will be profoundly damaging to our capacity to exercise our power, to address the problems implicit in this global awakening, and we may face a world in which much of the world turns away from us, seeks its own equilibrium, but probably slides into a growing chaos.”

Conflict Quotes

Related topics

Conflict Quotes