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Quotes About Relations

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
~ Archibald Alexander
No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans. You
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Justice demands not just a set of abstract values, but also an understanding of concrete cause-and-effect relations.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja
~ Zbigniew Herbert
The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We ourselves constantly examine our own decisions and policies. We correct our mistakes whenever we find them. We draw conclusions from all positive and negative experiences and apply those conclusions as widely as possible. In these ways relations between the Communist party and the masses of the people are constantly being improved.
~ zedong mao ii
the act of helping sends metamessages —that is, information about the relations among the people involved, and their attitudes toward what they are saying or doing and the people they are saying or doing it to. In other words, the message of helping says, "This is good for you." But the fact of giving help may seem to send the metamessage "I am more competent than you," and in that sense it is good for the helper.
~ Deborah Tannen
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
~ Dennis Kucinich
We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.
~ Allan Savory
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
~ Tom Peters
In fact, we owe the expression "pecking order" to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found that pecking orders are ladderlike, with the top rung conferring great privilege in the form of food and safety, and the bottom rung fraught with vulnerability and risk.
~ Jennifer Ackerman
There were rumors at the high school of girls who'd had to depart suddenly to "live with relations." One of these, Loretta Stone, was now a year behind her peers: a chastened solitary girl whose alleged ruin was a succulent dish the other children feasted upon.
~ Jennifer Egan
The governments of the world, knowing each other's interests, do not invade each other.
~ Emma Goldman
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I "haunt". I must admit that this last word is misleading, tending to establish between certain beings and myself relations that are stranger, more inescapable, more disturbing than I intended. Such a word means much more than it says, makes me, still alive, play a ghostly part, evidently referring to what I must have ceased to be in order to be who I am.
~ Andre Breton
Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.
~ André Gunder Frank
The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.
~ Simon Greenleaf
We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
~ Robert Mugabe
The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.
~ Alexander Lukashenko
Russia is a part of the West and at the same time is a part of the Asia-Pacific.
~ Shinzo Abe
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
~ Brian Mulroney
You know in the West they support realistic forces.
~ Eduard Shevardnadze
Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.
~ Dominique de Villepin