Quotes About Inevitable Conflict

#1. Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

#3. Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is ... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

Tony Blair

#4. We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Horace Greeley

#5. It was a pattern he would play out his entire life: Rather than lose someone he cared for, he would withdraw first, usually by creating some mock conflict as a way of lessening the abandonment he felt was inevitable.

Charles R. Cross

#6. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

Mark Twain

#8. The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order ... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Arthur Henderson

#9. Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable ... There's going to be conflict, coercion and consensus. That's part of what will be required as we give birth to the first global civilization.

Jim Garrison

#10. It was my view that no kill was worth the life of a wingman ... Pilots in my unit who lost wingmen on this basis were prohibited from leading a [section]. The were made to fly as wingman, instead.

Erich Hartmann

#11. Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

Martha Beck

#12. Life was messy, conflict inevitable. It didn't mean you had to fall apart.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#13. When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

Daisaku Ikeda

#14. It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict ... There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex - everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.

Angelina Jolie

#15. When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable.

Rene Cassin

#16. I met some fans who said, 'Please start Twittering!' They even walked me through it, but I'm terrible at it. I'm so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I'm not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.

Jim Parrack

#17. What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.

Anna Broadway

#18. Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Max Lucado

#19. Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

Jean Baker Miller

#20. Oh, so you're untouchable, huh, Delilah? You and your fucked-up relationship with your mother and everyone else in your life? Great. Does getting pissed at me make it better? does it fix ANYTHING?"
"You! Can't! Fix! Me!

Sarah Ockler

#21. Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#22. Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!

Lord Byron

#23. You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

Richard Seymour

#24. The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

Andrew Goodman

#25. One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

Zedd

#26. I put a hand between my legs. Yup, everything was still there; then I goosed Peter.
He laughed. "Hey, now ... "
"I was just checking to make sure all the important parts were still attached."
"Jeez, D ...

Adrienne Wilder

#27. I don't know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that's it.

Philip Roth

#28. Change is inevitable. If you don't seek it out, it will seek you out.

J.S.B. Morse

#29. in my head. Was there

Nancy Rooks

#30. All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.

Martti Ahtisaari