Top 1200 Ethnic Conflict Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

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

[Donald] Trump, he - you know, buy American, buy American, anti-free trade, and got big cheers. They're waving Russian flags, probably partly as a joke. But, still, the party has become an ethnic nationalist party.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

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

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

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

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

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.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

The key to handling problems and conflict within an organization is to keep the channels of communication wide open.

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

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

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

Love does more than bring peace where there is conflict. It brings a different way of being in the world.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by that momentous event is reflected in those pogroms, ethnic cleansing, proliferation of nuclear weapons, poverty, and riots that continue to cause seismic tremors in the Indian subcontinent.

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

He [Reagan] likes to tell jokes and that's why he told the ethnic joke that got him into some trouble. Perhaps if reporters didn't overreact to a politician's telling the very same joke they routinely hear and tell in the city room, we'd get more humor.

Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups in those countries present different challenges.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.

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

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

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

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

As a journalist, a big part of what you do is search for drama and conflict. And a lot of the backstory with 'Billions' is grounded in my journalistic background.

The intensity of cyber conflict around the world is increasing, and the tools are becoming cheaper and more readily available.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

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

I planned so well for my post-'Cosby Show' life that I don't have to make desperate acting choices that conflict with what my values.

As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.

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

The cultural pressure for a middle-class Chinese-American to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from Chinatown is nil. The same can be said of Jews, or of any other ethnic group. But in black America the folly is so commonplace it fails to attract serious attention.

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

I speak to black and ethnic coaches who ring me, or write to me, for some advice. There is a frustration from a lot of young, very able, black coaches to find that pathway that will get them into full-time positions.

In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.