Association Quotes

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

Mahatma Gandhi
I started rowing in December 1995. The place was Association Nautique Faontainbleau in France. A friend of mine from middle school told me that I should join him 3 times a week for rowing because my hands were so big that I would'nt require oars to row.

Xeno Muller
- School
- Friend
- Hands

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Matthew Pearl
- Society
- Faithful
- Talkers
every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Freya Stark
- Up
- Picture
- Silent
Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.

Hassanal Bolkiah
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

Ernest Gellner
- Strong
- Party
- Enough
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.

Walter Block
- Violence
- Policy
- Property