Top 1200 Conflict Of Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

CARE is participating in a groundbreaking summit to end sexual violence in conflict.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.

If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the amount of interest the US pays abroad - it is almost exactly equal to the amount of interest that it receives from abroad. American assets held abroad are earning a higher rate of return than foreign assets held here.

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

People do want to know, there is curiosity, it is a matter of public interest. That is not sufficient reason to disclose information. It is not sufficient that there be curiosity and interest that you want to disclose information.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

You grow through the conflict and you emerge together. I think that's what the Olympics are all about.

Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

We must change all elements of our behavior that are in conflict with gospel... covenants.

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.

I do like low interest rates. I'm not making that a big secret. I think low interest rates are good. I like a dollar that's not too strong. I mean, I've seen strong dollars. And frankly, other than the fact that it sounds good, lots of bad things happen with a strong dollar.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn't be so high.

Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.

I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

Just like a good drama, the human brain runs on conflict.

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.