All 23 Uses
conflict
in
Atlas Shrugged
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- The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right-wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption?†
Chpt 1.6conflict = struggle or disagreement
- It was Lillian's austerity that attracted him-the conflict between her austerity and her behavior.†
Chpt 1.6
- He could not understand why-he thought it was an obscene conflict, the sign of some secret depravity within him-why he felt, at the same time, a profound pride at the thought of granting to a woman the title of his wife.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was the eternal conflict between spirit and matter, between soul and body.†
Chpt 1.10
- He was not a person prone to inner conflicts, he had always been sure of his actions and at peace with himself.†
Chpt 1.10 *conflicts = struggles or disagreements
- There is no conflict between the standards of his mind and the desires of his body.†
Chpt 2.4conflict = struggle or disagreement
- For ten years, he had heard himself denounced throughout the country, because his was a "company union" and because he had never engaged in a violent conflict with the management.†
Chpt 2.6
- This was true: no conflict had ever been necessary; Rearden paid a higher wage scale than any union scale in the country, for which he demanded-and got-the best labor force to be found anywhere.†
Chpt 2.6
- A conflict of this kind had never been possible before.†
Chpt 2.7
- Danneskjold lighted a cigarette and watched her for an instant through the first jet of smoke, as if he knew the violence of the conflict in her mind-then he grinned at Galt and rose to his feet.†
Chpt 3.2
- "Did it ever occur to you, Miss Taggart," said Galt, in the casual tone of an abstract discussion, but as if he had known her thoughts, "that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires-if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?†
Chpt 3.2
- There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another-if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.†
Chpt 3.2
- "If any part of your uncertainty," said Galt, "is a conflict between your heart and your mind-follow your mind."†
Chpt 3.2
- We'll wait for you-and, Dagny, when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.†
Chpt 3.2
- Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men, men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust, men who neither make sacrifices nor accept them.†
Chpt 3.7conflicts = struggles or disagreements
- They have taught him that his body and his consciousness are two enemies engaged in deadly conflict, two antagonists of opposite natures, contradictory claims, incompatible needs, that to benefit one is to injure the other, that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm, but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body, to undermine it by years of patient struggle, digging his way to that glorious jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.†
Chpt 3.7conflict = struggle or disagreement
- A psychologist helping a neurotic to solve a problem and untangle a conflict, does it by means of-blank-out.†
Chpt 3.7
- Do you wonder why, wherever you look, you see nothing but unanswerable questions, why your life is torn by impossible conflicts, why you spend it straddling irrational fences to evade artificial choices, such as soul or body, mind or heart, security or freedom, private profit or public good?†
Chpt 3.7conflicts = struggles or disagreements
- But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway.†
Chpt 3.7
- We will rebuild America's system on the moral premise which had been its foundation, but which you treated as a guilty underground, in your frantic evasion of the conflict between that premise and your mystic morality: the premise that man is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others, that man's life, his freedom, his happiness are his by inalienable right.†
Chpt 3.7conflict = struggle or disagreement
- There can be no conflict among these three ....what am I doubting?†
Chpt 3.8
- "The John Galt Plan," Wesley Mouch was saying, "will reconcile all conflicts.†
Chpt 3.8conflicts = struggles or disagreements
- The crash of sound-the screeching crash of ripped metal and of pressures colliding on conflicting circuits, the sound of a monster turn' ing upon itself-was heard only inside the structure.†
Chpt 3.9conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)
Definitions:
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(1)
(conflict) a struggle or disagreementin various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)