Top 1200 Conflict Of Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third. Will the latter be secure? The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to make the movie, I don't think about any of that. I think about certain aspects like who's making the movie and who's gonna tell a story that I wanna be involved in, but I don't have that choice and I never have.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

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.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

We do not look for compromise; rather, we seek to resolve the conflict to everyone's complete satisfaction.

When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting rid of things that you love, but in the interest of making a movie that's not longer than two hours, and in the interest of when every joke hopefully is good enough, then everybody looks good. You cut things that you love, but ultimately it's for the greater good of making the whole movie better.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

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

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

President Putin and President Trump are very much alike in their basic approach to international relations.They both insist on their priority as national interest. And they both understand pretty well that sometimes it is in your national interest to conduct good relationship with your counterpart, ensuring that those relationships are mutually beneficial and ensuring that - that you are really ready to take into account each other's concern.

If two norms conflict, if they are mutually inconsistent, then at least one of them must be false.

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.