Quotes about Relations

What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

Indifference is a form of sloth. For one can work hard, as I've always done, and yet wallow in sloth; be industrious about one's job, but scandalously lazy about all that isn't the job. Because, of course, the job is fun. Whereas the non-job---personal relations, in my case---is disagreeable and laborious.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.