(856 quotes found)
“One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies”
Bruce Kent
“A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. [The Third Law of Robotics]”
Isaac Asimov
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
Marian Wright Edelman
“Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.”
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
Margaret Thatcher
“To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.”
Milton R. Sapirstein
“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”
George W. Bush
“The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.”
Clark Moustakas
“The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.”
Andrew Bernstein
“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]”
