Allies Quotes - Page 25

• What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally?

  Christiane Northrup

  Life Is Like, Body, Ifs

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• It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

  Blaise Pascal

  Gratitude, Love Is, Debt

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• At last, Mythic feeling and conscious perception no longer confront each other as antagonists but as allies. Passionate nationalism is no longer directed toward tribal, dynastic or theological loyalties, but toward that primal substance, the racially based nationhood itself. Here is the message which will one day melt away all dross, eliminate all that is base, and bring into being all that is noble.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Loyalty, Feelings, Perception

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 45, 1930.

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• If I have to describe the India-US relationship in a single word, I will say we are natural allies. I think the relationship between India and US, and the two countries in themselves, have played an enormously important role and continue to play an important role in strengthening democratic values all over the world.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Thinking, Play

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• Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Israel, Want, Messages

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• [The] United States is proud to stand with you as your strongest ally and greatest friend. I see this visit as an opportunity to reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations, to restate America's unwavering commitment to Israel's security, and to speak directly to Israel and to your neighbors.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Opportunity, America

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• Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Perfect, Enemy

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees, its people starved, half a million of its children killed, its infrastructure severely damaged, after making sure that most of its weapons have been destroyed, in an act of cowardice that must surely be unrivalled in history, the 'Allies' / 'Coalition of the Willing' (better known as the Coalition of the Bullied and Bought) - sent in an invading army!

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Army, Iraq

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.117, Penguin Books India

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• It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Congress, Credibility

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.

  George W. Bush

  War, People, Victory

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• [F]ear is a great ally.

  David Gemmell

  Ears

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.

  Wesley Clark

  Technology, Research And Development, Organization

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• Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, Democracy

  Chicago Daily Herald, October 18, 2004.

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• I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent.

  Chester Bowles

  Believe, Opportunity, Challenges

  "Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations". Book by Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt, Princeton University Press, p. 100, "The Azores", White House Memorandum to President John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC (June 4, 1962), 2009.

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• I opposed the war in Iraq because I did not believe it was in our national security interest, and I still don't. What we [America] did was akin to taking a baseball bat to a beehive. Our primary security threat right now is terrorism - and by doing what we did in Iraq, we've managed to alienate a good part of the world and most of the allies whose intelligence and other help we need to combat and defeat terrorism.

  Jerry Springer

  Baseball, War, Believe

  "Democratic Veteran". Interview with Jo Fish, June 23, 2003.

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• I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

  Julius Streicher

  Facts, Remember, Newspapers

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  War, Fighting, Turkeys

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• England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  United States, England, Being The Best

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.460, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
  [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

  Sallust

  Kindness, Giving, Receiving

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Nervous

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein... Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

  Ann Coulter

  Democracy, Burning, Hussein

  Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. 2011.

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• Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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• It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.

  Stephen Colbert

  Children, Mind, Television

  "Emmys 2006: Minute By Minute" by Daniel Fienberg, www.chicagotribune.com. August 27, 2006.

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• There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

  Rich Lowry

  War, Way, Sometimes

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• The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Fighting, Civilization

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