Quotes About Diplomacy

Wilson focused his energies and hopes on his role as possible mediator.

America must be "neutral in fact as well as in name . . . impartial in thought as well as action.

The strain of making war would be nothing compared with the strain of making peace.

Secret diplomacy is a necessary tool for a propertied minority which is compelled to deceive the majority in order to subject it to its interests," he continued. "Imperialism, with its dark plans of conquest and its robber alliances and deals, developed the system of secret diplomacy

You can change friends but not neighbours.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

The purpose of all war is peace.

Não havia nas universidades modelos de treinamento, seja nos cursos de psicologia, de sociologia, na formação de psiquiatras ou de diplomatas, para construção de pontes socioemocionais nas situações de conflito. Éramos maduros para usar tecnologia digital, mas meninos para usar ferramentas de gestão da emoção.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

bombings stopped suddenly in April 2004 as a result of a strategic choice by its leadership and a subsequent secret deal with Israel.33

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

The legitimate object of war is a more perfect peace"-this sentence

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.

But no amount of economic and military aid can earn a foreign country the sort of good will that extends to parts of the Text intended exclusively for domestic consumption. While Chinese visitors to the war museum in Pyongyang are shown exhibits acknowledging their country's enormous sacrifice, locals are taken on another route where they see and hear no mention of it.

Kings have to deal with their neighbors, their wives, their children, their prelates or clergy, their nobles, their second-nobles or gentlemen, their merchants, their commons, and their men of war; and from all these arise dangers, if care and circumspection be not used.

As for the acquaintance, which is to be sought in travel; that which is most of all profitable, is acquaintance with the secretaries and employed men of ambassadors: for so in travelling in one country, he shall suck the experience of many. Let him also see, and visit, eminent persons in all kinds, which are of great name abroad; that he may be able to tell, how the life agreeth with the fame.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in as by chance, so that he may be asked the question upon the other's speech: as Narcissus did, relating to Claudius the marriage of Messalina and Silius.