Quotes by category:Relation

What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!

Frederick Franck

relation

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

sanctity foreign-policy relation

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Friedrich Engels

property slavery relation

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

G. I. Gurdjieff

oneself type relation

Do mathematics have a relation to reality or are they only a mathematical symbol?

Fulton J. Sheen

mathematics relation reality

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

smell flower relation

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

absolute-truth symbols relation

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact - positive impact - on race relations.

Donald Trump

positive-impact relation thinking

I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction - and you see this particularly with something like the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - nonfiction we define in relation to what it's about. So, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's "about" Stalingrad. Or, here's a book by Claire Tomalin: it's "about" Charles Dickens.

Geoff Dyer

relation book thinking

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Georg Simmel

form stranger relation

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

George Crook

relation character thinking

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

George David Birkhoff

individuality relation love

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

George F. Kennan

tendencies judging relation

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

George Eliot

marriage relation sympathy

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

apprehension hopkins relation

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

George Bernard Shaw

endure relation sex

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

George Eliot

forbidden-love perfect relation

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

mind relation world

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

Gottfried Leibniz

craftsman spirit relation

Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.

Gore Vidal

enjoy relation sex