Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people."
Conflict quotes
Conflict
574 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation."
Mother Jones
Labor Activist
"Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts."
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"Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict."
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"Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars."
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"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion."
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"Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation."
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"The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be.""
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"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
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"If any part of your uncertainty, is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind."
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"If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts."
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"When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses."
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"Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture."
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"Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves."
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"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself"
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"Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good."
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"There are always two forces warring against each other within us."
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"When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another."
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"Father said conflict develops the character"
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"I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them."
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"Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict."
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