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"No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil." »Robert Lynd
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"In US we had our share of civil conflicts driven by economic forces. The European immigrants brought slaves from Africa to use them as cheap labor for farming their lands. The color of the skin is only a rationalization for the continuation of the slavery system. All the segregation and discrimination rules against the blacks at that time were made to preserve the existing economic system and the interest of its beneficiaries. Though the American civil war was attributed to states and civil rights, the driving forces behind the war was the conflict of economic interests." »Med Jones
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"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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"One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov, Laws of Robotics from I. Robot, 1950
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men." »Hilaire Belloc
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." »Thomas Paine
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." »Winston Churchill
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"conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional." »Max Lucado
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"Commitment in the face of conflict produces character." »Unknown
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"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him." »Charles Horton Cooley
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"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." »William Ellery Channing
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"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." »Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary." »Kathleen Norris
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"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe." »Percival
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"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self." »Erich Fromm
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." »Walter Savage Landor
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." »Paulo Freire
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"Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception." »Emile Coue
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"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." »Tao Le Ching
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