Quotes About Conflict

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

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

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?