Top 1200 Conflict Of Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

My wife has taught me about unconditional love. When there's a conflict, there's never a thought that we won't work it out.

But the thing we do know is whatever it costs to save and protect American lives in this conflict, we're going to spend.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

I do seem to work in a lot of different mediums, which means it keeps things fresh and sparks interest in me. Fame and fortune is fairly irrelevant to me. It's nice because it gives creative freedom. But just wanting to be famous is ridiculous because it's so vacuous. So, I get offered lots of different things and if they spark my interest, I'll try and do them because they form part of a wider creative circle.

Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.

I'd been conflict-phobic my entire life because I didn't want to lose my inner core of peace.

Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest and individual responsibility. They shouldn't be paying for anybody else's health care or anything else like that. As a result, government is something that should be absolutely minimal. It's not there for your overall protection and empowerment - it's not there to offer protection against disease or natural disasters or bad products or companies who sell you fallacious mortgages and so on.

As prime minister, Hariri did not directly confront Hezbollah or the Syrians, but conflict simmered nonetheless.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.

The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.

Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

Too many of our conversations in the media hinge on conflict delivered in three-second sound bites.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

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

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

If we want to see an end to personal and global conflict, then love is the only real answer.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve the problem. It stacks the cards, and in nine cases out of ten, it eliminates at least two useful suspects. The only effective love interest is that which creates a personal hazard for the detective - but which, at the same time, you instinctively feel to be a mere episode. A really good detective never gets married.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.

It is odd that a value/virtue that plays such a central role in dramatic literature has played such a small role in philosophical writing. There are probably a number of reasons, but I think that a predilection for a certain kind of individualism is a major one. Others might include the fashionability of consequentialism, the idea that loyalty has more to do with sentiment than reason, as well as its proneness to corruption. The revival of interest in virtue/character as distinct from rules/principles has also created space for a renewed, if hesitant, interest in loyalty.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do things for others makes a bigger difference. But, one who does everything for everyone for the sake of humanity without vested interest makes a real big difference for sustainability.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

I felt that we started to go through the motions. Our hearts weren't there. Because we were always working on the band, and it became more about selling records than about writing and being passionate. That's why I ultimately lost interest. I don't want to speak for everybody, but I personally started to lose interest because we were doing it for the wrong reasons. It became monotony and it just wasn't fun anymore. Yeah, an obligation.