Alliances famous quotes

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
-- Adolf Hitler

#War #Purpose #Alliances

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Alliances #Benefits #Chess

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Technology #Years #Alliances

[I believe in] the throne...parliamentary institutions...private enterprise and individual opinion against the socialization of the state...equity in the distribution of public burdens and strict maintenance of public faith with the creditors of the state [and] a fresh guarantee of peace by an alliance with France and...Belgium for the defence of our common interests against unprovoked attack.
-- Austen Chamberlain

#Believe #Guarantees #Alliances

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
-- Carlos Slim

#Technology #Alliances #Wave

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
-- Chuck Hagel

#Alliances #Agility #Problem

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
-- Chuck Hagel

#Twenties #Alliances #Definitions

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.
-- David Berlinski

#Time #Alliances #Philosopher

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
-- Demosthenes

#Safety #Alliances #Safe

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.
-- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

#Views #Understanding #Alliances

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Cheer #Alliances #Action

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
-- Eric Rohmer

#Alliances #Difficulty

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
-- Fanny Burney

#Long #Alliances #Folly

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
-- Fidel Castro

#Progress #Alliances #Millionaire

Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.
-- Francisco Franco

#Agreement #Alliances #Spirit

The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.
-- Francois Mauriac

#Alliances #Protection #Recess

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
-- Franjo Tu?man

#Independent #Yugoslavia #Alliances

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.
-- Geoff Hoon

#Alliances #Would Be #Kabul

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.
-- George W. Bush

#Alliances

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
-- Gilles Deleuze

#Philosophy #Reflection #Alliances

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
-- Isabel Paterson

#Pimp #Alliances #Politician

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Creating #Alliances #Models

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
-- James Buchanan

#Historical #Alliances #Disputes

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
-- Jan Egeland

#Effort #Relief #Alliances

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
-- Jeffrey Sachs

#War #Leader #Alliances

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
-- John F. Kerry

#Country #Strong #Alliances

America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances.
-- John F. Kerry

#Military #America #Alliances

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
-- Jose Maria Aznar

#Alliances #Weapons #Roles

I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.
-- Kathleen Hanna

#School #Alliances #World

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
-- Ludwig Feuerbach

#Angel #Devil #Alliances

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.
-- Max De Pree

#Friendship #Dog #Alliances

Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
-- Nancy Farmer

#Country #Alliances #Harder

Highly complementary airline alliances and mergers can bring important benefits to passengers by connecting networks, offering new services and generating efficiencies across the aviation value chain. However, this has to take place within a competitive environment. It is vital that the economic benefits of an airline alliance or merger are passed on to passengers.
-- Neelie Kroes

#Offering #Important #Alliances

The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
-- Niki Lauda

#Air #Alliances #Berlin

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.
-- Niki Lauda

#Air #Cost #Alliances

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
-- Otto von Bismarck

#Sacrifice #Noble #Alliances

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.
-- Paul Farmer

#Order #Alliances #World

More broadly, strategic alliances are more difficult to manage and coordinate than single ventures; the potential for misunderstanding and disagreement, particularly between partners from different cultures, is great. Certainly many such alliances are short lived.
-- Peter Dicken

#Different #Culture #Alliances

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
-- Richard Bach

#Loneliness #Independence #Alliances

Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First International and which were best understood and most strongly held by the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance.
-- Rudolf Rocker

#Wings #Alliances #Shapes

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.
-- Sergio Marchionne

#Car #Cost #Alliances

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.
-- Shinzo Abe

#Japan #Alliances #Irreplaceable

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.
-- Shinzo Abe

#Strong #Japan #Alliances

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
-- Steve Case

#Years #Alliances #Partnership

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
-- Sydney Smith

#Mistake #Errors #Alliances

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#War #Liberty #Alliances

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets
-- Tom Peters

#Skills #Creating #Alliances

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
-- Tommy Franks

#Pregnancy #America #Alliances

Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need -- that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.
-- Walter F. Mondale

#Independent #Alliances #Minnesota

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Europe #Important #Alliances

Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.
-- Leon V. DePoncins

#Alliances #Interpretation #Demonstration

For any alliance to work, the focus must remain on solving specific problems.
-- Mal Fletcher

#Focus #Alliances #Problem

Code-sharing, alliances, and connections are all about "how do we screw the poor customer for more money?"
-- Michael O'Leary

#Connections #Alliances #Aviation

In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.
-- Rafael Cruz

#Socialist Government #Alliances #Taxation

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.
-- Stephen Kinzer

#Reality #Alliances #Partnership

This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.
-- Steve Fisher

#Our World #Class #Alliances

If Estonia or any member-state was invaded and Article V was not invoked, NATO will fall apart. If it fails once, the alliance will no longer exist.
-- Toomas Hendrik Ilves

#Fall #Estonia #Alliances

Normally, when youre working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
-- Romola Garai

#Character #Goal #Alliances

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
-- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#Alliances #Interest #Permanent

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.
-- Leston Havens

#Real #Goal #Alliances

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.
-- Leston Havens

#Profound #Groups #Alliances