Quotes About Alliances

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Families were bunk, temporary and uneasy alliances of strangers who would hate each other less without the coercion of blood, the spiraling bonds of genetic ivy holding its victims fast to a blasted tree.

Traffic generation isn't magic.  It all comes down to creating great content and establishing powerful alliances that help you reach large audiences.

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.

In marriage, alliances and money rightly weigh at least as much as attractiveness and beauty.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

The Empire functions beyond mere laws," Paulus continued. "An equally strong foundation is the network of alliances, favors, and religious propaganda. Beliefs are more powerful than facts.

An Emperor rules through wealth, military might, alliances, and influence. But he keeps his rule through the wisdom of his decisions, the respect of his subjects, and the momentum of history. Should he lose any one of those factors, his position is greatly weakened.

Things change in the Imperium. Alliances form and dissolve on whims.

American—a child not of old borders and ancient alliances, but of ideals and liberty.

a confirmation of two of history's more dismal lessons: that grand alliances rarely survive the shock of victory, and that great powers usually behave as rivals rather than as partners.

Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off?

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Causes that live by politics, die by politics.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

We must be open to creating alliances of progressive and socialist organisations on a local level, particularly given the undemocratic electoral system face.

They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

That afternoon, I begin to learn the wisdom of keeping my feelings to myself, a lesson reinforced often during a childhood of female warfare and tricky, shifting alliances, so often that my genius for envasion at last approaches that of my mother. She may sleep with a mask, but by the time I am a teenager I have made one within myself, I have hidden my heart.

Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror — of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.

In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.