Quotes About Relations

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

If Pakistan and Iran can live as friends, I don't know why there should be a problem with India. If Britain and France can be friendly with Germany, if the United States can be close to Canada, why not India and Pakistan?

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with them.

We will do business with the Chinese - but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!

We have extradited terrorists to the United States in the past. And we expect the same thing to be done by the United States.

For more than two decades, as the temperature climbed in Mississippi race relations, Reverend Hudgins built brick by brick a theological bulwark of personal and individual salvation, designed to protect white Christian power and white Christian consciences from black demands for justice.

Thus, deprivation of love and care in interpersonal relations results in anxiety states which disturb the psychological equilibrium and this tension may be relieved by the process of fantasy. The primary fantasy, therefore, is the "self-mothering" process or the incorporation of the maternal image within the self as a "nourishing" and controlling agent. It

Among our Potawatomi people, women are the Keepers of Water. We carry the sacred water to ceremonies and act on its behalf. "Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers," my sister said. "We carry our babies in internal ponds and they come forth into the world on a wave of water. It is our responsibility to safeguard the water for all our relations.

How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?

Among our Potawatomi people, women are the Keepers of Water. We carry the sacred water to ceremonies and act on its behalf. "Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers," my sister said. "We carry our babies in internal ponds and they come forth into the world on a wave of water. It is our responsibility to safeguard the water for all our relations." Being a good mother includes the caretaking of water.

How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again? I know we cannot all become hunter-gatherers—the living world could not bear our weight—but even in a market economy, can we behave "as if " the living world were a gift?

As the land becomes impoverished, so too does the scope of their (ecology students, any young people) vision. When we talked about this after class, I realized that they could not even imagine what beneficial relations between their species and others might look like. How can we begin to move toward ecological and cultural sustainability if we cannot even imagine what the path feels like? If we can't imagine the generosity of geese?

Unable to compromise on business principles, Rockefeller chose to jeopardize family relations instead.

Yet financial differences quickly soured his relations with Morgan.

Over time, relations grew ever closer and more incestuous between the railroads and large shippers. For decades, Rockefeller and his colleagues enjoyed free passes on all major railroads, which they regarded not as payoffs but as natural perquisites of their business.