Quotes About Diplomacy

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.

So when you see Captain Picard or Commander Sisko decide that logic, reason, and communication are the way to solve problems and not turn to violence, then we were telling something to our audience that needs to be said on a regular basis.

Their decision to keep above the fray made sense. Franklin and Washington were thin-skinned and recoiled from ad hominem attacks. Neither was particularly adept at defending a proposal in a contentious up-or-down vote, especially a proposition they helped to craft. Franklin might begin fiddling with the text and Washington might lose his temper.

He described the statesman—a role he boasted of avoiding—as someone "whose watchful days & sleepless Nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own—perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if the Globe was insufficient for us all.

Bismarck once said, 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

People around the world today, growing cautious of war and fearful of its consequences, have turned increasingly to its moral equivalent in team sports.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Thus, by degrees, we began to discover Tisquantum; whose ends were only to make himself great in the eyes of his countrymen, by means of his nearness and favour with us: not caring who fell, so he stood.

Be realistic that the United Nations Organization is just a manager of superpowers since results are undeniable proof of that.

Dialogues between two sides can be more constructive and resultful than the third party that has only its interests in its agenda

Exceeding the salt spoils the delicious food, which can be dangerous too. Similarly, to surpass and misuse the veto right in the UN Security Council deprecates and damages the value and nature of its charter, and that becomes a poison.

Osama Bin Laden, an alleged killer of Americans, caused eleven years of war to kill him, killing uncountable innocents; conversely, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an obvious murderer of Indian and Kashmiri Muslims, became honourable of the White House, welcoming by the US President Joe Biden. In such a scenario, does the world honestly expect global peace?

Peace increases; whereas, war decreases, every context and way of life and system.

The black rule, in the White House hands. Indeed, it shows the humiliation of the United Nations and human rights. The world observes that nonsense silently.

The foreign policy determines and shows actual freedom and independence of the state.