Top 1200 Religious Conflict Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you decide you're going to be a public servant, you should not be able to take on interests that conflict with the city.

In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

We want to achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

...When we lift our voices tiny molehills of difference become great mountains of conflict.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

I was interested in the question of the power of religious organizations to effect public policy in a negative way. When I was in college, and I found out at that time the Catholic Church was in such control of everything in communities, including in progressive places like New York - that a roommate of mine was not able to obtain an abortion with his girlfriend, even in places like New York. What I learned at that moment was the extraordinary clout that religious organizations can have to impose their theological views on others. And I found it exasperating and dangerous.

The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.

I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution....The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground. Although it provides that all men shall enjoy religious freedom, yet it does not provide the manner by which that freedom can be preserved, nor for the punishment of Government officers who refuse to protect the people in their religious rights, punish those mobs, states, or communities who interfere with the rights of the people on account of their religion. Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means of enforcing them.

Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.

Choosing to leave the lesbian life brings us into direct conflict with the satanic realm.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Cyber will be part of any future conflict - whether it's a nation state or terrorism.

Within-group conflict is always personal and emotional - even if it begins with impersonal issues.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.

And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.