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Quotes About Relations

Monaco's neutrality is one of our main attributes - the role of small countries is to act as go-betweens between big nations.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.
~ Reuven Rivlin
I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.
~ Mohammad Javad Zarif
War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.
~ Nikola Tesla
To be complete, a journey presupposes the deconstruction of prejudices and stereotypes. A traveler's shift in focus and his revision of priorities and of his mistrust are the clearest manifestations of this process. In this regard, our relations with enemies are of special interest.
~ Nilton Bonder
Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation purposes. In more honest circles, much of this is conceded. Of course, it is understood much more profoundly by beasts in men's shapes who endure the consequences of challenging the imperatives of stability and order.
~ Noam Chomsky
US relations with the World Court and other international institutions have undergone a similar evolution, to which we return.
~ Noam Chomsky
they do not hate us, but rather the policies of our government...
~ Noam Chomsky
and the Pakistanis wouldn't let them come over and
~ Vince Flynn
All the while, it was rumored, she continued to have relations with the boy, Prince João
~ Laurence Bergreen
How could we have sexual relations with extraterrestrials unless they were remarkably like us biologically? Why would extraterrestrials have any interest in having sexual intercourse with us unless we were very similar? Why do many male extraterrestrials find female Earthlings sexually alluring?
~ Laurence Galian
No nation has friends only interests
~ Charles de Gaulle
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
~ Charles de Secondat
Oh let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.
~ Charles Dickens
Drawing on her humanist readings of Karl Marx, Grace urges us to analyze not only the material forms of inequality caused by capitalism but also the dehumanization and spiritual impoverishment inherent in a society dominated by money relations.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~ Graham Greene
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~ Graham Greene
To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities and relations that it manifests in this particular network.
~ Graham Harman
Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.
~ Gustave Le Bon
It is clear, then," he says, "that witnesses even in number may give circumstantial relations which are completely erroneous, but whose result is that, if their descriptions are accepted as exact, the phenomena they describe are inexplicable by trickery.
~ Gustave Le Bon
simple concepts – here, parts of the body from 'head' to 'heel' and from 'breast' to 'intestines' – are swept out of their original environment and carried into the domain of spatial relations.
~ Guy Deutscher
legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract justice, and that consequently in spite of the legal codes it is really the human relations underneath that determine the verdicts in the courts.
~ James Jones
I can explain nothing to you unless I first draw your attention to patent inadequacies in your knowledge; discontinuities in the relations between objects, or the presence of anomalies you cannot account for by any of the laws known to you. You will remain deaf to my explanations until you suspect yourself of falsehood.
~ James P. Carse
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
~ Richard Engel