Top 1200 Religious Conflict Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis in 1944 we passed the War Refugee Act, which focused on rescuing Jews, a religious group. But if the religious group is the subject of the persecution based on their religion, it's perfectly OK for a First Amendment-bound society to emphasize their rescue, just as it is perfectly OK to emphasize the fact that many, if not all of the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism, come from countries with a history of supporting terrorism.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

I like to be a peacekeeper, and I just don't believe in stirring up conflict.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

I actually really love 'Game of Thrones,' and I don't see a conflict in that.

According to my religious belief, I'm sorry if you feel like I'm pushing this on you - my religious belief is that you behave the way God wants us to behave. And that's simply love God and love one another. If we did that, there would be no need for any of the other commandments. It would be great. But in the same vein, we would have obtained paradise by that point. And it's tougher to get to paradise by that point.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

In some of the classes, especially the introductory religion courses I took, the professors can veer into a particular strain of religious anti-intellectualism. Professors typically aren't given tenure at Liberty, so there's pressure to hew to the party line on religious and social issues. I didn't see a whole lot of my professors encouraging critical thinking among their students. Which isn't to say that students don't engage critical thinking skills at Liberty - just that it wasn't part of my classroom experience there.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

He who wants to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it.

You grow through the conflict and you emerge together. I think that's what the Olympics are all about.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

The difference is conflict, an important yet overlooked aspect of all good communications.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them.

The issue of religious liberty is absolutely critical. America was founded on three different types of liberty: political liberty, economic liberty, and religious and civil liberty. It's remarkable that, one-by-one, these strands of liberty are coming under fierce attack from the Left. And that's particularly ironic because "liberal" derives from a word which means "liberty," the free man as opposed to the slave. This liberalism which we're saddled with today isn't a real liberalism at all, but a gangster style of politics masquerading as liberalism.

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.