Quotes About Clash

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

But this is an instance where we also have to allow for some creative licence. Avatar is about a clash of cultures, the heavy handed technological human civilisation versus the gracef Navi, living lightly in their world.

The dead do not see, unless they look from a brighter place than this darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night.

Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them." Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

Badgers and cats don't mix, and that's the end of it.

In these fixtures, the past is forgotten. What is rewarded is the present. This is a Clasico: two teams that will be at 100 percent regardless of the situation.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much.

What I want, isn't what I need...

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

Past colliding with present promised disaster.

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

The clash of civilizations, the conquest wars, the protracted process of colonization are all eclipsed and elided into a single symbolic moment.

Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?" "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." "What . . . what do you mean?" "I hold that there is no clash of interests among men who do not demand the unearned and do not practice human sacrifices.

If big Daddy-O was going to blow his stack over a witch doctor, here's one cat that wasn't going to miss it.

Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

While I do not believe we are not witnessing a clash of civilizations between Christianity and Islam, it is a fantasy to imagine that the world's two largest religions are in any meaningful sense the same, or that interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims will magically bridge the gap.

Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

Americans believed in openness. Democracy thrived on a clash of ideas, a tolerance of viewpoints, and robust debate.

The realization is disconcerting because it suggests that in a given disagreement, the other guy might have a point, we may not be as pure as we think, the two sides will come to blows each convinced that it is in the right, and no one will think the better of it because everyone's self-deception is invisible to them. For

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory.

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory."4 Even John F. Kennedy's less gruesome "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" makes the tension clear.