No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs [e. g. the sacrifice of many victims] of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?
I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.
Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.
You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.
If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.
Everyday ask yourself the question, "Do I want to experience Peace of Mind or do I want to experience Conflict?
Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
They [the Soviets] intend. . . to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict. . . . Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression.
I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.
When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.
Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.
The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms of Gaza but also the Hezbollah and Lebanon, with the continuing crisis in Iraq, which is very dynamic and unpredictable and which could get out of hand, and maybe even escalate and enlarge.
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.