Quotes About Conflict

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Religions, by definition, disagree as to the truth - a reality that cannot be overcome by demanding that one or the other faith repudiate its claim to truth.

Why do human beings find it so hard to live and let live? Countries are messing with each other. Religions are messing with each other. Castes are messing with each other; people mess with each other.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Christians themselves, in all the churches. It cuts across every denominational line.

So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.

I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.

My father was kicked out of the National Front. He does whatever he wants. It doesn't concern me anymore... I don't talk to him, and I'm not responsible for him or his inadmissible remarks.

Force is not a remedy.