“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men’s desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.”

“In a free nation, it matters not whether individuals reason well or ill; it is sufficient that they do reason. Truth arises from the collision and from hence springs liberty, which is a security from the effects of reasoning.”

“A civil war occurring in a country, where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of the violation of neutral rights. All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship.”

“You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.”

“The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!”

“Advancement of a society doesn’t come cheap, it’s the result of the interaction and collision between conservatism and futurism”

“Giovanni hadn't lied. Sagra was a Baroque wonder, an unlikely and disturbing collision between Nature and Arts.”

“The music our collisions make!”

“Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right…”

“Fragment 3. The harmony is generally the result of contraries; for it is the unity of multiplicity, and the agreement of discordances.”