Angels make effective use of competitive spirit to promote a wholesome rivalry and inspire a quality of service. [1] In advanced civilizations co-operation is more efficient than competition. [2] Improved tools, ingenious and efficient machines, determine the survival of contending groups in the arena of advancing civilization. [3] Competition is healthfully stimulated by diversification of races. [4]
In the most continental nation of a neighboring planet, there is keen competition, but not only in industry but also in games, skills, science and letters. [5] Time and circumstance select the fitter for survival. [6] In schools of Planetary Princes exists a wholesome rivalry among the races of men to enter them. [7]
Although competition in industry is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective, it should not be eliminated if it abrogates the fundamental freedoms of the individual. [8] Competition is essential to social progress, but competition, unregulated, breeds violence. [9] Competition-gravity ever pulls man down toward the beast level; poverty is his natural and tyrannical estate. [10] Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain. [11]