Quotes About Alliances

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

That kind of 'Lord of the Flies' brutality of being 11, it's a tough time. You're trying to figure out who you are, and who your friends are, and what your alliances are, and kids fall out all the time.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

I have been responsible for so many fronts in the past: The National Front, the United Front; the UNPA, too, was created by me.

Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances.

On the occasions when city-states did work together, it was usually in temporary alliances for mutual self-protection.

The Venetians briefed shamelessly on both sides according to the set of tested maxims: "It is better to treat all enemy rulers as friends," one seasoned politician advised, "and all friends as potential enemies.

Also, human groups are formed of highly flexible alliances, not just among family members but between families, genders, classes, and tribes. The bonding is based on cooperation among individuals or groups who know one another and are capable of distributing ownership and status on a personal basis.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.

An American government that really wanted to stick it to the Chinese Communist Party would be reinforcing U.S. alliances in Asia, instead of threatening to withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan until they pay extortionate rates for U.S. bases.

I would say history is a clear witness to many of the problems that have erupted when two partners from the same industry or same country have come together.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.

Nor is it likely that the Republican Party will abandon its goal of attaining a permanent majority, much less renounce the alliances it has cultivated with corporations, religious groups, conservative intellectuals, and powerful lobbies.

those who believe in facts and logic will quickly discover that the United States and its Allies are mainly responsible for this trainwreck. the April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine and Georgia into Nato was destined to lead to conflict with Russia. the Bush administration was the principal architect of that fateful choice, but the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have doubled down on that policy at every turn...

In Wilson's mind, the signing represented the defeat not simply of Germany but of an entire way of organizing the world. Balance of power, armed alliances, secret treaties, "might makes right"—all these assumptions would now be thrown out.

Secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests," he continued. "Imperialism, with its dark plans of conquest and its robber alliances and deals, developed the system of secret diplomacy

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Nations touch at their summits.

There's always going to be cliques - everywhere you go, there's gonna be cliques; there's gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.