I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.
I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.
Love is a clash of lightnings
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
Too many people think that the faith line divides Muslims and Christians or Jews and Hindus, or just to say that there is this clash of civilizations and people from different religions are inevitably against each other, inherently opposed to each other. I don't believe that for a second. I think the faith line divides totalitarians and pluralists, which is to say that totalitarians from different religious backgrounds.
So there was great clashes when, you know, if you believe you shouldn't remove your shoes and someone's taking their shoes off, how can they do this? That actually was such a big clash in this case that they had to put a curtain down the middle of where they would worship.
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.
The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square was only the first episode. It is headed for a series of Tiananmen Squares. It cannot continue to develop privately and at the same time maintain its authoritarian character politically. It is headed for a clash. Sooner or later, one or the other will give.
Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.
Truths may clash without contradicting each other.
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
The hippy movement was a failure.