Accommodations Quote by Learned Hand

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to…

— Learned Hand

We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day…

— Peter Corning

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to…

— Ambrose Bierce

Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does…

— Robert Hugh Benson

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and…

— John W. Gardner

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

— Noam Chomsky

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

— Germaine Greer

“No social legislation can ever be final. Economic conditions are in a constant state of fluctuation, and periods of tranquility are followed by renewed…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the…

— Max Heindel

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the…

— Gore Vidal

Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

“The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of…

— Matthew Kelly