Russell M. Nelson Quotes

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Everything is a battle with this band.

I think that internal conflict works very well, because, after all, all the best drama is fuelled by conflict.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand.

Every kingdom divided against itself shall be desolated.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

Turn on your television and see what happens when nations settle their internal differences with guns.

The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.

As humans our hangups seem to shape our interaction with the world around us. They are often the source of our intolerance and friction with people who think differently than us, and even the reason we build walls between us and the people close to us.

To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.

I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

There is no shortage of disputes.

I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.