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Quotes About Conflict

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
~ Jon Elster
Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
But experiments went for nothing,-dualism had sworn to uphold its position.
~ Auguste Laurent
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
~ Fredrik Bajer
And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."
~ Richard Dawkins
The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
~ Grove Karl Gilbert
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
~ E. O. Wilson
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.
~ Don DeLillo
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
~ Terence McKenna
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
~ J. Arthur Thomson
Why do we always fight?" she whispered. "You know why." Yeah, she did. "It's science." "Combustible chemistry," he agreed. "Dangerous.
~ Jill Shalvis
Every Iraqi would I know would rather have Saddam back... I mean like... that does not even take rocket science.
~ Jodie Evans
So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
~ Book is a nice companion
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
~ Charles Darwin
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
~ Mark Lynas, The God Species
Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!
~ Vishwanath S J
As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.
~ Virginia McKevitt, The Hunted
One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war
~ Francis Collins
Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?""I wasn't, " he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did.""I'm an idiot.""Yeah, you are.""Shut up.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo