Quotes About Diplomacy

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pranab Mukherjee

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

MacArthur's worse than the Cabots & the Lodges-they at least talked to one another before they told God what to do.

Do you still throw spears at each other? (to Australian Aborigines during a visit to Queensland)

You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes)

Diplomacy is the art of recognizing all colors and knowing how to mix them up and bring them back as they were first.

Diplomacy requires strength and depth of thinking , tactics require careful observation, the surprise, and decisiveness with the power of decision.

Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Diplomacy without sagacity and prudent manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

One of the biggest mistakes of the negotiations is your interfere with your antagonist when he is making a mistake.

You have to remember, dear interlocutors, and never forget: that the ultimate goal of negotiating is convergence- not unconditional surrender.

Don't be ever in court or a castle without a woman to make your excuse.

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, she or he has no experience with it.

I'm against all war.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

the concepts of libertas and libertà came to be employed 'almost as technical terms of Florentine politics and diplomacy' in the course of the fourteenth century, and that they were almost invariably used in order to express the same ideas of independence and self-government

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.