Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"Relationships flourish when built on mutual respect and equality."
Michel Bakunin
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"Relationships thrive on honesty and mutual recognition of worth."
Michel Bakunin
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"The alliance between different groups requires shared ideals, not just shared interests."
Antonio Gramsci
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"I believe in being absolutely honest in my relationships."
Emma Goldman
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"The greatest gift we can give others is our authentic presence."
Emma Goldman
"Relationships are built on honesty, not sentimentality."
Friedrich Engels
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"Economic relations set the tone for all other human relations."
Karl Marx
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"I hold that the great nations of the world are rapidly assuming conditions which must soon make them either friends or enemies."
Lord Palmerston
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"Interest begat good will; good will begat confidence; confidence begat truth."
Jeremy Bentham
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"The principle of sympathy and antipathy produces what is called sentiment."
Jeremy Bentham
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"Competition isolates individuals from one another in spite of the fact that it brings them together."
Karl Marx
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"The individual is born into society; he cannot exist without it."
Karl Marx
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"Sexuality is the name we give to a historical construct, and it only seems natural because we forget its invention."
Michel Foucault
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"To study sexuality is to understand how modern power operates not primarily through repression but through production."
Michel Foucault
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"We are always already inscribed in relations of power that shape our desires, perceptions, and possibilities."
Michel Foucault
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"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with help of others."
William Gladstone
"Women cannot be expected to devote themselves to the emancipation of women as long as they are not allowed to love."
John Stuart Mill
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"The greatest distance between people is misunderstanding."
Edmund Burke
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"Society is nothing more than the union of individual interests."
Jeremy Bentham
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"I feel sure that no girl should marry for love alone."
Queen Victoria
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"I think it is a great advantage to have a husband who is wise and sensible."
Queen Victoria
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"Relationships are the true measure of our success."
Prince Metternich
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"The loss of cherished relationships reminds us of what truly matters."
Queen Victoria
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel a responsibility for the lives of those connected with us."
William Gladstone
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"Men naturally gravitate toward happiness in familiar relationships."
Edmund Burke
"We belong together, we two."
Wilhelm II
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"A man's career is his reputation; a woman's is her discretion."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Relationships require patience, understanding, and forgiveness."
Queen Victoria
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"All relationships are built on the foundation of mutual respect."
Queen Victoria
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"Man can do nothing without society; society can do much without any single man."
Prince Metternich