In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.
If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
H. L. Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
I don't like conflict.
I never got in a conflict. I didn't want Don Shula to say a word to me at all. My play emphasized that. He couldn't get me for anything or whatever. After that we were ok. I just didn't like the way they used me at the end of the 1963 season going in 1964. I felt that they played games with me.
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
The difference is conflict, an important yet overlooked aspect of all good communications.
Everything in this world is about conflict because this is the kind of world that humans are born into.
The enemy is delighted to have us so occupied incessantly with secondary and trivial concerns, as to keep us from attacking and resisting in the true spirit of the conflict.
Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
We are the prisoners of ideas.
The medals no-one will ever wear should be the ones that reflect the most. It's not an ending, it's not a period at the end of their lives, it's a semicolon. The story will continue to be told.
I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having rights in a way that individuals do. Communities certainly have interests, but they don't exactly have rights.
It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.
I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.
I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.