The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.
Wars don't bring lasting peace, only lasting death.
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle. . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.
I don't like conflict.
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict. . . . ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.
That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.
The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.
We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.
There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.