Amity Quotes

• Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

  Herman Melville

  True Friend, Relation, Reciprocal

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.138, Penguin

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• We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Sports, Race, Understanding

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

  William Shakespeare

  Stupidity, May, Folly

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.

  George Washington

  Justice, Humanity, May

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Ties, Together

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes”, p.377

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• War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, War, Products

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

  Victor Hugo

  Peace, Discovery, Civilization

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• "Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you."

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Care, Faces

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, May 1, 2012.

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• The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

  Veronica Roth

  House, Safe, Conflict

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• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Matter, Deaf

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• We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Presidential, Relation, Aggression

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• My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Fighting, Messages, Becoming

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• My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

  Jonathan Swift

  Horse, Four, Stranger

  Jonathan Swift (1826). “Gulliver's Travels”

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

  Henry James

  Destiny, Men, Proof

  Henry James (1974). “Henry James, Senior: a selection of his writings”

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• Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Memorable, Heart

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• It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.

  James Madison

  Hands, Political, Trying

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• And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

  Veronica Roth

  Intelligent, Brave, Peaceful

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• This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

  Veronica Roth

  Teacher, Community, Leader

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  America, Japan, Community

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• Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

  John I. Jenkins

  Dinner, Als, Sides

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Men, Egotism, One Man

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• There is a great amity between designing and art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Design

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• For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod--no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off--none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Heart, Sleep

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• A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Good Marriage, Endeavor, Refuse

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