50 Quotes About Conflict

Conflict can be a difficult thing to deal with, especially when it’s caused by a disagreement about something important. For example, if your best friend tells you they want to move to another state, you’ll probably have a hard time accepting it. However, conflict doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It can actually help us grow and learn from our mistakes, and it can even force us to try new things and take risks Read more

No matter how it makes us feel, conflict is a part of life. And when we learn how to handle it properly, we can do some pretty great things. Here are some of the most powerful quotes on conflict in order to help you enjoy the ups and downs without letting them get in the way of your happiness.

Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice...
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Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice. Criss Jami
The only walls that exist are those you have placed...
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The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. Suzy Kassem
We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.
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We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Kuna nguzo saba ambazo hazina budi kuzingatiwa kama unataka kuheshimiwa na kuwaheshimu wengine. Kwanza kabisa jitambue: wewe ni nani na unafanya nini hapa duniani. Halafu, kabla ya kusema jambo lolote kwa mtu yoyote fikiria kwanza maana au madhara ya hilo unalotaka kulisema. Kisha jifunze tamaduni mbalimbali na watendee wengine kama vile unavyotaka kutendewa au kama vile wanavyotaka kutendewa. Jifunze kusamehe na kusuluhisha migogoro katika jamii unamoishi huku ukidumisha heshima na utu kwa binadamu wenzako. Jijengee imani kwa watu, punguza upendeleo, fanya kazi kama timu kwani hakuna ‘mimi’ katika umoja ila kuna ‘sisi’, na jitahidi kwa kadiri ya uwezo wako WOTE kwa manufaa ya wote. Kuwa kiongozi katika kila jambo unalofanya na katika kila kitu unachofanya. Jitahidi kufanya jambo au kitu kwa usahihi kwa kadiri utakavyoweza. Enock Maregesi
Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain...
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Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice.. You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice. Ana Claudia Antunes
The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through...
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The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible. DaShanne Stokes
People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.
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People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible. DaShanne Stokes
If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think...
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If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself. Israelmore Ayivor
If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t...
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If you promote peace and progress for others, I don’t think you will have sleepless nights. Israelmore Ayivor
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Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason’s fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members . Drexel Deal
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If at all the energies of the Soul (Atmashakti) gets wasted, it is due to conflicts. Endless energy is lost due to conflicts! Even with slightest collision (conflict) it is all over! If we maintain equanimity with awareness and do not conflict with the other person, then work will go on. Dada Bhagwan
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You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day. Israelmore Ayivor
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Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes. Israelmore Ayivor
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If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening! Israelmore Ayivor
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How does ‘common sense’ arise? Through conflicts. During conflicts, if one does not clash with anyone, even if the other person comes clashing with him, he should not clash with him. If one is able to remain this way, ‘common sense’ will arise. Otherwise, whatever ‘common sense’ there is, it too will disappear! Dada Bhagwan
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I wish we'd be able to deliver our message at the global level on the need to recognize the past genocides in order to prevent new ones. Our message of peace and justice will hopefully reach every corner of the world. Widad Akreyi
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Bringing countries together above their conflicts require great minds and great hearts. Amit Ray
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If one’s mind becomes conflict-free, that is ‘moksha’; conflict filled mind, that is worldly life. Dada Bhagwan
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The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved! Israelmore Ayivor
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Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently? Shannon L. Alder
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If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living. Richelle E. Goodrich
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The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible! Israelmore Ayivor
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It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same. Anthony Liccione
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When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict. Dada Bhagwan
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Avoiding Chargebacks"Depending on the type of business, the frequency of charge backs will be higher for some businesses and more difficult to defend. Learning15 the proper way to handle a customer chargeback will help the owner and reduce the frequency. Having to pay charge backs can be very costly to the business owner resulting in losses. It could also be very discouraging to a new business owner knowing that he has to pay a penalty, as well as refund services rendered. It would be a good idea to be aware of the things about which your customers complain frequently and make it a goal to correct, improve, or remove it. It would be very unfortunate to learn of a damaging remark about your operation made on the Internet, rather than face- to- face. Make it a point to inquire of your customer whether he was dissatisfied. Make conversation with your customer and if the customer has a complaint, make every effort to resolve it as soon as possible. Charge backs could get very costly and sometimes settling the dispute with the customer could save you money. However, there will be times when the refund should not be given or attempts to settle this on the spot should not be made. The business owner will have to use his own judgment. Jesus counsels us to “Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Luke 6:27, (KJV).” No doubt some business owners will have difficulty doing this when the occasion arises, and some may have learned that this is the way to go. But, I encourage you to try this. As you do more and more business, you will find this to be a very necessary way for you to resolve conflicts in your business. It will be easier to do this than to resist, as Jesus said in Matthew 5:25 (KJV), “Agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him.; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.” Being cast into prison may be an extreme outcome, but we can avoid further conflicts if we would just humble ourselves and strive to resolve our conflicts. If it is any consolation, there are rewards for acting with love. Luke 6:35 says, “But love thee your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” As one can see, business owners have a higher degree of responsibility because of the number of people with whom he/she interacts. Gail Cavanaugh
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The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them! Israelmore Ayivor
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The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment! Israelmore Ayivor
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Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg! Israelmore Ayivor
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The little I have, I share with you; the little you have, you also share with me. Together we all have a full share of everything. Share with me your Love as I share with you my Peace; together we have full share of Unity! Israelmore Ayivor
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Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die. Kilroy J. Oldster
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As parents one of the biggest jobs we have, is teaching our children how to resolve problems effectively. We live in an era where everyone is quick to act the fool over simple issues. As we used to say when I was on the streets, ‘everybody wants to cut a movie’. Drexel Deal
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Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care. Joyce Rachelle
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My pulses quicken. The thunderous sound of my heart beating fills my eardrums. I’m jealous of a dead girl. Why? Because I think I’m in love with her boyfriend. Kat Lieu
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Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security. Widad Akreyi
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Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together. Shannon L. Alder
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Nothing moves forward in a story except through conflict. Writers who cannot grasp this truth, the truth of conflict, writers who have been misled by the counterfeit comforts of modern life into believing that life is easy once you know how to play the game. These writers give conflict a false inflection. The scripts they write fail for one of two reasons, either a glut of banal conflict or a lack of meaningful conflict. The former are exercises in turbo special effects written by those who follow textbook imperatives to create conflict but because they're disinterested in or insensitive to the honest struggles of life, devise overwrought excuses for mayhem. The latter are tedious portraits written in reaction against conflict itself, these writers take the pollyanna view, that life would really be nice if it weren't for conflict. What writers at these extremes fail to realize is that while the quality of conflict in life changes as it shifts from level to level, the quantity of conflict is constant. When we remove conflict from one level of life, it amplifies ten times over on another level. When, for example, we don't have to work from dawn to dark to put bread on the table, we now have time to reflect on the great conflict within our mind and heart or we may become aware of the terrible tyrannies and suffering in the world at large. As Jean-Paul Sartre expressed it, "The essence of reality is scarcity. There isn't enough love in the world, enough food, enough justice, enough time in life. To gain any sense of satisfaction in our life we must go in to heady conflict with the forces of scarcity. To be alive is to be in perpetual conflict at one or all three levels of our lives. . Robert McKee
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There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together. And so we are right now in an extremely perilous age of thunder, lightning, and hurricanes all around. I think it is improper to become hysterical about it, projecting hatred and blame. It is an inevitable, altogether natural thing that when energies that have never met before come into collision–each bearing its own pride–there should be turbulence. That is just what we are experiencing; and we are riding it: riding it to a new age, a new birth, a totally new condition of mankind–to which no one anywhere alive today can say that he has the key, the answer, the prophecy, to its dawn. Nor is there anyone to condemn here (”Judge not, that you may not be judged! ”). What is occurring is completely natural, as are its pains, confusions, and mistakes. . Joseph Campbell
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The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END! Widad Akreyi
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We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope! We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! Widad Akreyi
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In recent years, academics, policy-makers, and experts have raised the question of the applicability of peacetime environmental law in times of armed conflict. Widad Akreyi
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Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts Widad Akreyi
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Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict. Widad Akreyi
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The statement at the core of all disagreements: I’m right, you’re wrong. Charles F. Glassman
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Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another. Alex Morritt
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Civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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When love becomes a play of squirming mindgames or a tinderbox of mental conflicts, emotional benchmarks need an unremitting reset. ("Another empty room") Erik Pevernagie
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Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. YOUR devotion to helping others is an expression of YOUR greatness. Widad Akreyi
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Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that's already inside of you. Auliq Ice
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Israelis cannot be blamed for the conflicts and civilians casualties nor do the Palestinians. We can argue endlessly about it, the only one that can be blamed for this lasting battle is the Saudis fueling the conflicts for enduring their supremacy in the Arab world. M.F. Moonzajer