Ally Quotes

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)
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. View quote
Montesquieu
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. View quote
William James
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. View quote
John Dryden
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. View quote
Ben Hecht
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. View quote
James Baldwin
Sheer necessity,the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. View quote
Rumi
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. (Albert Kesselring)
Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. View quote
Brent Scowcroft
Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism. View quote
Vito Fossella
Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied. View quote
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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. View quote
Yukio Mishima
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. View quote
William R. Alger
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. View quote
Alfred Russel Wallace
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. (Alexander Pope)
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization. View quote
George W. Bush
[F]ear is a great ally. View quote
David Gemmell