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Quotes About Conflict

The first reaction to truth is hatred.
~ Tertullian
The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish that he was my brother and you weren't." - Clary
~ Cassandra Clare
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?
~ C. H. Dodd
Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.
~ Gayle Rubin
There's only one truth about war: people die.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.
~ Loung Ung
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
~ Jean Rostand
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
~ Sharon Begley
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.
~ Gene Tierney
The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.
~ Ezra Miller
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.
~ Harry Elmer Barnes
There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.
~ Matthew Simpson
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
~ James Russell Lowell
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
~ Sam Harris
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
~ Harper Lee
People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
Some people are antagonized by the truth.
~ Julia Roberts
Victory cannot tolerate truth.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
~ Theodore Parker
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.
~ Patricia Wentworth
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky