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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
Sep 10, 2025
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.
What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree.
The war existing between the senses and reason.
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
We belong to each other.
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into. You have to behave your way out of it.
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.
My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.
But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.
For Donald Trump's business partners around the world, including the developers of this luxury golf course in Dubai, what some in the U.S. may see as a conflict of interest is, for them, money in the bank.
The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Merkel is a flagship of the EU. Not everything depends on her, but much does. I have been shocked in a positive way by how Merkel is defending international law so openly and strongly. She wants to have peace and stability in the EU, and she knows that Russia is a problem in terms of security. It seems to me that many Germans are led by a certain fear of Russia. So you hear things like, "Let's avoid conflicts with Moscow, let's appease the Kremlin."
There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.