Competition
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Also: competitive spirit, rivalry, contending, Competition-gravity.
angels make effective use of competitive spirit to promote a wholesome rivalry and inspire a quality of service 28:5.18
In advanced civilizations co-operation is more efficient than competition. 71:5.3
Improved tools, ingenious and efficient machines, determine the survival of contending groups in the arena of advancing civilization. 81:6.20
Competition is healthfully stimulated by diversification of races. 64:6.33
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. 72:4.4 72:5.10
time and circumstance select the fitter for survival 68:4.7
in schools of Planetary Princes exists a wholesome rivalry among the races of men to enter them 50:4.9
In the Urantia Book
Benefits and downsides of competition
- Although competition in industry is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective, it should not be eliminated if it abrogates the fundamental freedoms of the individual. 71:5.4
- Competition is essential to social progress, but competition, unregulated, breeds violence. 71:5.1-3
- Competition-gravity ever pulls man down toward the beast level; poverty is his natural and tyrannical estate. 69:2.2
- Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain. 71:6.1
Where it appears
Competition is linked in 4 paragraphs of the text.