Quotes about Conflict

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next chapter says, "Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it." That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self. MARTIN LUTHER (1483—1546)

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.