The mentality of who is your uncle—an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan’s internal conflicts.
Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.
Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do." --Meyer's Law
It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
