The picture of the free market is necessarily one of harmony and mutual benefit; the picture of State intervention is one of caste conflict, coercion, and exploitation.
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.
'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
The Chinese Communist Party and the American people are locked in conflict.
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility.
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.