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Quotes About Relations

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
~ Alfred de Vigny
If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.
~ Shirin Ebadi
Hua could not repudiate the Cultural Revolution, and this weakened him. He was also a comparative newcomer to the centers of power, and he lacked the web of connections and informal relations that Deng had built up over many years.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
We've sent over 180 million frowns from the U.S alone, and you can bet that has an effect on the regime.
~ Dave Eggers
we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he expresses himself have been thrown into big time flux.
~ David Foster Wallace
The Greeks were the real inventors of what we call math, because-again-they were the first people to treat numbers and their relations as abstractions rather than as properties of collections of real things.
~ David Foster Wallace
live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which the relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" 70 have been thrown into big-time flux.
~ David Foster Wallace
Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or to beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up!
~ Winston S. Churchill
The destruction of German military power had brought with it a fundamental change in the relations between Communist Russia and the Western democracies. They had lost their common enemy, which was almost their sole bond of union. Henceforward Russian imperialism and the Communist creed saw and set no bounds to their progress and ultimate dominion, and more than two years were to pass before they were confronted again with an equal will-power.
~ Winston S. Churchill
No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better. 1943, 29 MAY
~ Winston S. Churchill
The invaders brought into Britain a principle common to all Germanic tribes, namely, the use of the money power to regulate all the legal relations of men. If there was any equality it was equality within each social grade. If there was liberty it was mainly liberty for the rich. If there were rights they were primarily the rights of property. There was no crime committed which could not be compounded by a money payment.
~ Winston S. Churchill
No people respond more spontaneously to fair play. If you treat Americans well they always want to treat you better.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Hackworth focused on what had long been the most active aspect of international law, the impact of war on commercial relations.
~ Christopher Simpson
Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this demands help from the allembracing state.
~ Herman Bavinck
Much of the difficulty which mental institutions have in their relations with the psychopath springs from a lack of awareness in the public that he exists.
~ Unknown
Imperialism provided the means through which concepts of what counts as human could be applied systematically as forms of classification, for example through hierarchies of race and typologies of different societies. In conjunction with imperial power and with 'science', these classification systems came to shape relations between imperial powers and indigenous societies.
~ Unknown
There was one good side to my male relations. Since they were married to my sisters, they had all learned to be swiftly subdued by sarcasm.
~ Lindsey Davis
Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.
~ James K. Polk
We have heard the Chinese refer to the Shangri-La Dialogue speech at various points. You have a lot of articulations about the top leadership itself about what is the spirit of India-China relations. There is a very clear understanding between the two countries about the defence relationship.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.
~ Pope Francis
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
I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.
~ Nicolas Maduro
Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Now that the Liberal party has returned to power after nearly a decade of Stephen Harper's Conservative government and its on-again, off-again friendliness with Beijing, the propaganda line is that Canada-China relations are on the verge of a 'new golden age.' Count on it. There will be a price, and we will pay. We always do.
~ Terry Glavin