Relations Quotes
Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.
I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
The opinions which we hold of one another our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent save in appearance but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation a mental or physical barter to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.
The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.
Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others if not more.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.
Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.
It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.
Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.