relationship quotes

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from Europe, based on a special relationship with the United States, on being the head of the Commonwealthis about to be played out. Her Majesty's Government is now attempting, wisely in my opinion, to re-enter Europe.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
  Speech at West Point military academy, 5 Dec.  According to the NewYork Times, 23 Nov1969, Prime Minister Harold Wilson later countered,'Mr  Acheson is a distinguished figure who has lost a State Department and not yet found himself a role'.

The dependence of London on Washington for the supplyof our so-called independent nuclear weaponsis all that remains of the'special relationship'and†it is reallya ball and chainlimitingourcapacity toplaya more positive role in the world. See Churchill 217:93.

-Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) Benn
  In The Independent,18  Apr.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Speech at Fulton, Missouri, Mar.

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

- Bill (William) Clinton
  Television broadcast to  America,18  Aug. In The Times, 19  Aug.

I think it is something of the same sort of security we should seek in our relationship with God. The most flawless proof of the existence of God isno substitute for it; and if we have that relationship, the most convincing disproof is turned aimlessly aside.If I may say it with reverence, the soul and God laugh together over so odd a conclusion.

- SirArthur Stanley Eddington
  Science and the Unseen World.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects† It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenand absurd.

-John Robert Fowles
  The Magus, ch.52.

Political economy thus does not recognize the unoccupied worker, the working man so far as he is outside this work relationship. Swindlers, thieves, beggars, the unemployed, the starving, poverty- stricken and criminal working man, are figures which do not exist for political economy, but only for other eyes; fordoctors, judges,grave-diggers,beadles,etc.Theyare ghostly figures outsidethe domain of political economy.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  Collected in T B Bottomore (trans and ed) Early Writings (1964), p.137^9.

My best friend is myself† It's a lifelong relationship and divorce will never come into it.

-Morrissey full name Steven Patrick Morrissey
  In the Observer,15 Sep. US    inventor    and    painter,    who    demonstrated    (1844)    the practicability of an electrical telegraph device to Congress. He had earlier trained as an artist.

   If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

-Plato
Republic, bk.7, 531d (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

War, then, is not a relationship between man and man, but between State and State, in which private persons are only enemies accidentally.

-JeanJacques Rousseau
Quoted in A J P Taylor From the BoerWar to the ColdWar: Essays onTwentieth-Century Europe (1995),'War and Peace', p.15.