Alliance Formation Quotes

People have got to form some kind of unified fronts where you know who your allies are, you know who your friends are, and really begin to work together to create different kinds of infrastructures to protect one another and to help one another thrive.

We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

Forming an alliance is not the tradition of the AAP and we will not fight elections in collaboration with any political party or front.

We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

Your enemy's enemy is your friend

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

No alliance can be formed on Twitter.

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.