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Quotes About Relations

We must make clear that the United States will not tolerate hostile Russian activities against us or our allies.
~ Richard Burr
I shouldered a kind of manhoodstepping in to lift the coffinsof dead relations.
~ Seamus Heaney
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
~ Albert Einstein
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
~ William Pfaff
Whatever the nature of organizing relations may be,' J. Needham wrote in 1932, 'they form the central problem of biology, and biology will be fruitful in the future only if this is recognized. The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon compounds to the equilibrium of species and ecological wholes, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
~ Arthur Koestler
Theoretical physics is no longer concerned with things, but with the mathematical relations between abstractions which are the residue of the vanished things.
~ Arthur Koestler
Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Associations among concepts is thinking.
~ Stephen Anderson
t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things....But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean.
~ Stephen Hawking
The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects
~ Johnny Rich
Como muitos já notaram, a forma que a inovação assume no capitalismo é a simulação contínua do novo, enquanto as relações de poder e de controle existentes permanecem, na prática, as mesmas.
~ Jonathan Crary
Finally, on June 22, 1750, the Council, convened to advise on the matter, recommended, by a vote of 10 to 9, the minority protesting, that the pastoral relations should be dissolved. The concurrent sentiment of the church was expressed by the overwhelming vote of about 200 to 20 of the male members. The next Sunday but one Edwards preached his Farewell Sermon.
~ Jonathan Edwards
it is not easy to explain why the youngest survivors were the least likely to say that their families continued to enjoy positive relations with non-Jews after 1933.
~ Eric A. Johnson
It is not realistic to put legal constraints on war powers. Law works through general prospective rules that apply to a range of factual situations. International relations and national security are too fluid and unpredictable to be governed by a set of legal propositions that command general assent secured in advance. Laws governing war make us feel more secure but they don't actually make us more secure
~ Eric A. Posner
Perhaps the most instructive experience is to see the way governments all over the world are exclaiming, "What are we going to do about the United States?!
~ Eric Mann
Foreign officials joined in the criticism.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
We are products of the past and we live immersed in the past, which encompasses us. How can we move towards the new life, how create new activities without getting out of the past and without placing ourselves above it? And how can we place ourselves above the past if we are in it and it is in us? There is no other way out except through thought, which does not break off relations with the past but rises ideally above it and converts it into knowledge.
~ Benedetto Croce
The Lord deals with the nations as the nations deal with the Jews.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
country-seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to style him.--B. DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey
~ Benjamin Franklin
reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connection with the relations of the Colonies with Great Britain, and later with France. In 1757 he was sent to England
~ Benjamin Franklin
You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The drama of the final collapse of the gold-exchange standard would poison Anglo-American relations for decades. To the British way of thinking, Britain had been ignominiously forced off gold by selfish and short-sighted American and French policies: the Americans with their abominable import tariffs, and the French with their wretched devaluations. The Americans, for their part, saw themselves as innocent victims of an odious British default.
~ Benn Steil