Top 175 Alliances Quotes & Sayings

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

Our alliances and partnerships are not directed against any nation.

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

International alliances reduce the cost of developing cars significantly.

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

I believe America is safest and strongest when we are leading the world and we are leading strong alliances.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

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

Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

Brussels and its multifarious networks provide member states not just with trading access but also a guarantee of regular encounters, negotiations, contacts, informants, and alliances.

The idea is that Putin-Trump would be a win-win for the Kremlin, as they have mutual interests and alliances.

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

We must be open to creating alliances of progressive and socialist organisations on a local level, particularly given the undemocratic electoral system face.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald Trump wants to tear up our alliances. I think it makes the world safer and, frankly, it makes the United States safer. I would work with our allies in Asia, in Europe, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. That's the only way we're going to be able to keep the peace.

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

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.

Be the first to seize intersecting ground, that is ground which lies the intersections of borders or intersections of main thoroughfares of commerce and travel. Your occupation of it gives you access to all who border it and all who would covet it. On intersecting ground, if you establish alliances you are safe, if you lose alliances you are in peril.

Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

No person can be more deeply sensible than myself of the danger of entangling alliances with any foreign nation. That we should avoid such alliances has become a maxim of our policy consecrated by the most venerated names which adorn our history and sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the American people.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

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

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

Good alliances are made of strong, capable partners.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

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.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Russia should recognize the freedom of countries, such as Ukraine, to choose their alliances.

Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

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

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

Responding to Britain's future challenges will require unceasing agility in seeking out new alliances and refurbishing old ones inside Europe, not just outside it.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

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.

Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

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

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

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

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

It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in Asia.

I'm a big fan of the Mass Effect games, and that's all about social manipulation and observing people and alliances and relationships.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.