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Quotes About Relations

Almost a year later, in the summer of 2019, the Russians and Chinese began joint air patrols in the Pacific.
~ Daniel Yergin
Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.
~ James Clavell
Explanations of the stability of technologies must take account of the social relations of work as
~ Wiebe E. Bijker
But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plain dealing, and what love of nature, what poetry, what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him. But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and its back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
~ William J. Bennett
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
~ William James
The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.
~ Chris Weedon
Ce qui explique les violences conjugales, c'est la conjugalité
~ Christine Delphy
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?
~ Henrique Capriles Radonski
critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.
~ Henry A. Giroux
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
~ Henry Adams
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.
~ Henry Fairlie
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
~ Henry Kissinger
At the end of my November 1973 visit, I suggested to Zhou a hotline between Washington and Beijing as part of an agreement on reducing the risks of accidental war.
~ Henry Kissinger
Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men. At that moment an immense number of things passed dimly through both their minds, and they realized that they were both children of humanity and were brothers.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony. But when the relations between spouses are uncertain and there is neither the one nor the other, nothing can be undertaken.
~ Leo Tolstoy
By virtue of her character, Kitty always assumed the most beautiful things of people, especially those she did not know. And now, making guesses about who was who, what relations they were in, and what sort of people they were, Kitty imagined to herself the most beautiful characters and found confirmation in her observations.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
~ Leon Kass
and new forms of consciousness for its classes. Just as France stepped over the Reformation, so Russia stepped over the formal democracy. The Russian revolutionary party, which was to place its stamp upon a whole epoch, sought an expression for the tasks of the revolution neither in the Bible nor in that secularised Christianity called "pure" democracy, but in the material relations of the social classes.
~ Leon Trotsky
An army is always a copy of the society it serves- with the difference that it gives social relations a concentrated character, carrying both their positive and negative features to an extreme.
~ Leon Trotsky
Janet was in charge of relations with foreign powers—Quentin called her Fillory Clinton.
~ Lev Grossman
Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
~ Ada Lovelace
We will not allow any group to use our soil to launch a terror attack against any other country. Bangladesh is no longer an exporter of terrorism, nor is it a silk route for arms smuggling as it once was.
~ Sheikh Hasina
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
~ Judith Butler