Best 264 quotes in «relation quotes» category

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

The history and our experience shows that Democrats and Republicans think the same way in some cases, and their ideas aren't very different when it comes to international relations.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.

The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of it amplified by shootings of African-Americans by police, as we've seen recently in Charlotte and Tulsa. Race has been a big issue in 2016 campaign.

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

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