#alliance

Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only for briefly. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #change

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#foreign-policy #friendship #honesty #nations #peace

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#alliance #entered #into #man #marriage

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#cannot #deeply #each #hands #inserted

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. ↗

— Tony Blair

#business #centre #got #ground #labour

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#black #black community #community #decide #everybody

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. ↗

— Angela Davis

#alliance #another #around #called #case

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#any #does #hate #love #mean

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

#arrangements #better #cannot #changing #circumstances

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world. ↗

— Edward Grey

#america #anglo-saxon #between #branches #cause