Allies Quotes - Page 11

• The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

  Van Jones

  Life, Fall, Animal

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

  Murray Rothbard

  Play, Hostage Crisis, Media

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• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Pain, Failure

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• Walk firmly and with joy, without being afraid of stumbling. All your movements are being watched by your allies that will help you when necessary.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Joy

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• War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

  Ian Rankin

  War, Bizarre

  Ian Rankin (2006). “Blood Hunt”

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• Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, September 11, Secret

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• I know my own truth. I'm in a great relationship with a woman. Maybe before it used to bother me. Then I was like, ‘This is so stupid that this bothers me. Some of my best friends in the world are gay, and if this is bothering me, then that means I have an issue with that.’ Once I figured that out for myself, I thought, ‘I don't care what anyone thinks about me.’ That's why I think I've become an ally for the gay and lesbian community. I just got [an Ally for Equality Award] the other day in Atlanta. I've very proud of my role in the community. So say what you will.

  Matthew Morrison

  Stupid, Mean, Gay

  "Matthew Morrison Opens Up About His Sexuality, Glee and Going Back to Where It All Began". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating, this administration would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want another four-year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out our economy. We can't afford another Republican administration.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Years, Law

  Dennis Kucinich's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, www.politico.com. August 26, 2008.

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• I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• It [referring to calling a Minister "Idiot"] was probably not an appropriate term, but we support the war effort and believe we should be supporting our troops and our allies and be there with them doing everything necessary to win.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Believe, Winning

  "Montreal Gazette" Newspaper, April 2003.

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. ... I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Thinking, Mass Destruction

  "Maclean's" Magazine, August, 25, 2003.

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• It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Dry Up, People

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

  Terence McKenna

  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

  Joe Trippi

  Real, Nsa, Miracle

  "NSA spying: 20 great quotes" by Jose Delreal and Nick Gass, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

  Stephen Hadley

  War, Pakistan, Terror

  "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.

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• Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

  Stephen Hadley

  United States, Pakistan, States

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• Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Memories, Betray, Nemesis

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Thinking

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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Soldier, Natural

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.29, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.

  Shadia Drury

  Wise, Book, Being Real

  "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.

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• Buddhism and Christianity are incompatible because there is no God in Buddhism - particularly in Theravada Buddhism. But they are also allies because their values and practices are compatible and they can work together - indeed, they would benefit greatly from doing so.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Practice, Working Together

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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