The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.
Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.
Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.
If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.
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.
I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.
I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an age of apartheid, and now that's over. It was an age of two superpowers frozen in a cold war, and now that's resolved. So history marches on, except for this Arab-Israel conflict, which seems to have a claim on being eternal.
Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.
Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
Victory needs conflict as its preface.
Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.