100+ Allies Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

topic: Law, People, Allies, Counter Terrorism

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

- John William Draper

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Allies

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

topic: Basketball, Team, Allies

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

- Jonathan Maberry

source: Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Dust & Decay”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fighting, Allies, Heat, Tricksters

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

- Joseph Joffre

topic: War, Allies, Twenties

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

- Julio Cortazar

topic: Space, Allies, Stories

I remember reports that the American and English newspapers were very happy about the fact that so many were killed in Dresden. There are many instances of barbarity and cruelty on the part of the Allies which I could tell you.

- Julius Streicher

source: Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 15, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

topic: Allies, Facts, Remember, Barbarity

We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Kings, Arrows, Allies

Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Enemy, Allies, Action

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

- Lalu Prasad Yadav

topic: Allies

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally....

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Eggplant, Vegetables, Allies, Hot And Cold

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

- Laurie Colwin

topic: Eggplant, Allies, Hot

The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.

- Lewis Buzbee

topic: Allies, Bookstores, Limits, Time Limit, Slowness

In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

- Louis Susman

topic: War, America, Allies, Dependable, United Kingdom

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

- Louise Doughty

topic: Writing, Enemy, Allies

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.

- Marc Racicot

source: "Kerry: Bush uses terrorism threat for campaign" by Mike Rosell, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2004.

topic: Enemy, Allies, United States, Disturbing

If Australia is attacked, it's no longer terrorism. We have invaded Iraq. Iraq, or its new allies, have every right to attack back.

- Margo Kingston

topic: Iraq, Australia, Allies

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies

- Martin Landau

topic: Years, Allies

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Cutting, Firsts, Allies

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

- Meir Kahane

topic: Wish, Doe, Allies

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

- Michael K. Simpson

topic: Player, Diplomatic Relations, Allies

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

topic: Circles, Allies, Poet

A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

- Mike Huckabee

topic: People, Poverty, Allies, Productive Life, Trading Partners

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

- Mike Pence

topic: Government, Allies, Principles

just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

- Mikhail Bulgakov

topic: Allies, Murderer

Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.

- Paul McGann

source: "This Much I Know: Paul McGann". www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2011.

topic: Allies, Feels, Large Family

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 for the patience to win my freedom.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Winning, Allies, Looks

Each and every day, Israel remains on the frontline along with the United States in the War on Terror and is nothing but an unabashed ally of pro-democratic and pro-American policy.

- Reince Priebus

topic: War, Israel, Allies, War On Terror, Frontline

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

- Rich Lowry

source: FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Apr 05, 2011

topic: Way, Allies, Sometimes, American Leadership

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

- Richard Perle

topic: Jealousy, War, Allies

The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

- Rick Mercer

topic: Giving, Canada, Allies, Smack, Canada Being Great

The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power.

- Rinku Sen

topic: Jobs, People, Allies

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

- Sam Tanenhaus

topic: Memories, Allies, Betray, Nemesis

Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.

- Sami Al-Arian

topic: America, Israel, Allies

The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.

- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

source: "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Government, Pakistan, Allies

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.

- Silvio Berlusconi

topic: Responsibility, Political, Allies

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

- Sophocles

topic: Silence, Allies, Shame

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

- Stephen Hadley

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

topic: War, Pakistan, Allies, War On Terror

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

- Stephen Hadley

topic: Pakistan, Allies, United States

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

- Steven Erikson

topic: Differences, Followers, Allies

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

- Steven Erikson

source: "Midnight Tides". Book by Steven Erikson, 2004.

topic: Needs, Allies, Poison

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

- Sun Tzu

topic: Country, Soldier, Allies, Estimating

Lucky thing were allies, right? -Finnick Odair

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Allies, Lucky, Finnick Odair, Finnick

Ally McCoist, Kenny McDowall, Ian Durrant, Jim Stewart - all fantastic people. It is still a brilliant club for me, although technically it is now a new club

- Terry Butcher

topic: People, Clubs, Allies

Science is the natural ally of religion.

- Theodore Parker

topic: Allies, Natural, Science And Religion

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

- Thomas Bulfinch

source: Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

topic: Allies, Literature, Virtue, Handmaids, Promoters

If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

- Tommy Franks

topic: Government, Weapons, Allies

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

- Tony Juniper

topic: Poverty, Allies, Environment, Poverty Reduction

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

- Ugo Cavallero

source: "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.

topic: Government, Upset, Allies, Drastic, Armistice

England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

- Ulysses S. Grant

topic: England, Allies, United States

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

- Wang Jianlin

topic: Allies, Development, Interest, Personal Interest

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

- William Godwin

topic: Genius, Too Much, Allies

Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to do.

- Yaron Brook

topic: Israel, Allies, United States

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

- Yasmine Galenorn

topic: Powerful, Enemy, Allies

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

- Zadie Smith

topic: Children, Allies, Your Children

Time can be an ally or an enemy.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Enemy, Allies

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

source: The New York Times, July 06, 1973.

topic: Pakistan, Allies, United States

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

- Corey Flintoff

source: "Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

topic: Russia, Turkeys, Allies

The good news is that because terrorist groups rely so heavily on the internet, it offers new avenues for the U.S. and its allies to fight them.

- Dina Temple-Raston

source: "Cyber Bombs Reshape U.S. Battle Against Terrorism". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. September 12, 2016.

topic: Fighting, Terrorist Groups, Allies

I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.

- Donnie Fritts

source: "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.

topic: Song, Allies, Albums

U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged relationship has prevented better cooperation.

- Elise Hu

source: "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". Interview with Audie Cornish, wkms.org. December 28, 2015.

topic: Japan, Korea, Allies

I think that even though we should always welcome allies within the four corners of the United States, we shouldn't limit our allies to the four corners of the United States. I think that would be a grave mistake.

- Gerald Horne

source: Source: politicalaffairs.net

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Allies

The allies are looking carefully at the relationship.

- James Appathurai

topic: Allies

By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.

- Jonathan S. Tobin

topic: Struggle, Long, Allies, Throwing In The Towel

I am confident that just as a America`s commitment to the transatlantic alliance has endured for seven decades, whether it`s been under a Democratic or Republican administration, that commitment will continue including our pledge and our treaty obligation to defend every ally.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Commitment, America, Allies

The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much murder comes as there is in certain parts of Islam.

- Manfred Gerstenfeld

topic: Issues, Islam, Allies

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

- Marion Dudley Cran

topic: Happiness, Garden, Allies

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

- Osborn Elliott

topic: Long, World, Allies, Journalistic

General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region.

- Peter R. Mansoor

topic: Iran, Support, Allies, General James Mattis

Donald Trump has been very clear that he's committed to NATO. But he's also been very clear - and I think in a right and proper way - that our allies need to step up to the plate with their investment spending, et cetera. And I think the allies have gotten that message.

- Philip M. Breedlove

topic: Thinking, Allies, Needs

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.

- William A. Rusher

topic: Party, Rights, Allies, Seniority

Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.

- Aleksandr Dugin

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: America, Mind, Allies

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

- Maurice Bowra

topic: Mind, Allies, Argument

The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?

- Benjamin A. Rogge

source: Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund

topic: Challenges, Enemy, Allies

We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.

- Peter Kenyon

source: "2 Willful Leaders Heighten Tensions Between Russia, Turkey". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

topic: Military, Turkeys, Allies, Military Personnel

[Donald] Trump has said that he would do away with the Iran Deal negotiated by the U.S. and five of its allies with Iran, and yet he recently backed away from vowing to scrap the Iran Deal for now.

- David Krieger

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Iran, Allies, Trump

I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.

- Ray McGovern

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: War, Technique, Allies, Enhancement, Sad Things

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

- Dennis McKenna

topic: Ayahuasca, Allies, Humans, Human Species

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

- Roger Wicker

topic: Turkeys, Iraq, Allies, National Interests

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

- Helmut Schmidt

topic: Men, Allies, British

We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

topic: Enemy, Allies, Politics, International Relations

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

topic: Allies, Interest, Permanent

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

topic: Silence, Allies, Indifference

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

- Tim Buck

source: "Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1957.

topic: Giving Up, Circles, Allies, American Imperialism

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

- Jon Rappoport

topic: Simple, America, Allies, Leading Causes

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

- Louis J. Freeh

topic: Country, Ideas, Allies

Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

- Pat Buchanan

topic: War, Allies, Immigration, Globalism

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.265

topic: Time, Overcoming, Allies, Appearing

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

- Leonard Cohen

source: Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

topic: Love, Battle, Allies, Unreliable

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

- Patti Smith

topic: Allies, My Sister, Grew Up

Enemies make better allies than frenemies.

- Adam Grant

source: Adam Grant (2016). “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World”, p.89, Penguin

topic: Enemy, Allies

It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.

- Stephen Colbert

source: "Emmys 2006: Minute By Minute" by Daniel Fienberg, www.chicagotribune.com. August 27, 2006.

topic: Children, Mind, Allies

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

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

topic: Allies, Events, Degrees

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

- Stephen Harper

source: "Canadian Press Newswire", April 11, 2003.

topic: Government, Should Have, Allies, Instability

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.

- Jeb Bush

source: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Fighting, Allies, Force, Kurds

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

- Che Guevara

source: Source: guevaristas.org

topic: Allies, Revolution, Internals

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Enemy, Stronger, Allies, Makes You Stronger

Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Enemy, Allies

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

- Al Franken

topic: Country, Believe, Allies

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

- Paul Wolfowitz

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Good Relationship, Allies, Trump

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

- Al Sharpton

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, Creating, Allies, Befriending

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

- Chris Christie

source: "Chris Christie hits Rand Paul, defends record as NJ governor". "The Five" with Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2015.

topic: President, Allies, United States

I don't watch myself generally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

- Steve Martin

topic: Allies, Watches, Accidents

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

- Lord Acton

source: Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.27, VM eBooks

topic: Passion, Allies, Mankind, Power Over Others

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

- Steven Pinker

source: Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.717, Penguin

topic: Religious, Allies, Doe

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

- Steven Pressfield

source: Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.107, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

topic: Angel, Opposites, Allies

What would your life be like if your body were your friend and ally?

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Life Is Like, Allies, Body

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

- Jewel

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Pain, Self, Allies

... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

- Susan Sontag

topic: Men, Allies, Wielding Power

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.