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Conflict Quotes
From battlefield conflict to comedy's darker source.
This page ranges from honoring service members in armed conflict to a sharper claim that comedy itself grows out of hatred. A historical entry notes the sustained war that helped bring about the Soviet empire's breakup. See Conflicts quotes for more.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
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The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.
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The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.
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Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
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The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
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The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.
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I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.
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Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.
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Welfare became a term of opprobrium - a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict in which liberals and conservatives clashed and children were lost sight of.
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Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
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