“That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.” MindWellsMaySaidBodyTogetherUnitedPerfectionUnionsTiesLinksAlliancesMatrimony Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.” IfsMadeSelfFilmArtistInterestUnitedCompanyGreaterReturnHollywoodMarkProtectionAllowingDistributionSelf InterestAlliancesCrazinessDistributorsHartChaplin Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the spiritual power and the executive power, between the church and the government, unfortunately takes away the Church's basic mission. It takes away their right to speak on moral or ethical subjects.” PeopleGovernmentTodaySpiritualSpeakChurchUnitedMoralSubjectsMissionsExecutivesEthicalCooperationAlliancesSpiritual PowerExecutive Power Author:Andrey Zvyagintsev
“The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'” PeopleMenShouldDoeWarStatesWantedDesireStrongNationsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesStudyColdLessonsWorshipUnionsBreadCommunismLive BySovietSecularDefeatedCold WarSoviet UnionAlliancesWorship GodOne Nation Under GodSecular Society Author:Richard M. Nixon