Quotes About Preventing Conflict

#1. From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Kofi Annan

#2. If only more people lusted to be kind than lusted to be rich, then maybe we could begin to know true wealth.

Charles F. Glassman

#3. The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

Afrika Bambaataa

#4. That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.

John Edward Williams

#5. I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

Kiernan Shipka

#6. The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

Naguib Mahfouz

#7. As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'

Ian Eagle

#8. Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Eugene H. Peterson

#9. The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

Will Rogers

#10. Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

Al Lewis

#11. Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

Robinson Jeffers

#12. Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Edward Young

#13. I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am.

Neil Young

#14. So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

James Wolfensohn

#15. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Kurt Russell