Quotes About Diplomacy

Transactional politics is not always appropriate or effective, but a political system which is not reliably capable of it is a system in a state of critical failure. Deal-making

Like his fellow inmates, Churchill was driven by an "earnest desire to do something, however small, for the British cause," with one important difference: "Of course, I am a man of peace. I do not fight. But swords are not the only weapons in the world. Something may be done with a pen.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Until our global institutions take a stand against the teaching and preaching of hate, all their efforts of diplomacy and military intervention will fail. Ultimately the responsibility is ours. Tomorrow's world is born in what we teach our children today.

Weapons win wars, but it takes ideas to win the peace.

is not necessary to delegitimize, call out, or cancel your opponents. It is better, simply, to persuade them.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy

La liberté ne dispense pas du tact.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954)

Morgenthau quotes

Perhaps the most instructive experience is to see the way governments all over the world are exclaiming, "What are we going to do about the United States?!

I tend to agree with the guy who said diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Modifying Clausewitz' aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other means.

A battle will not be fought, and blood will not be spilled

DO NOT HUNT OR TRESPASS ON ANOTHER CLAN'S TERRITORY.

All true conflict should aim at peace.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: "Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Britain's relationship with America might be described as 'special', but only if by 'special' we mean 'frequently dysfunctional'.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

When informed that a clerk at the Portuguese embassy was spying for both the Germans and the Italians, he wrote: "Why don't you shoot him?

Actually the only one of us who has been to Paraguay in the last thirty years is the Ambassador," said the receptionist, "and he's in Wales at the moment.

America and Britain were working on the bomb together, at astonishing scientific speed and in deepest secrecy. Neither was helping, or informing, its other main ally, the Soviet Union. But Moscow was secretly obtaining that help anyway, through its spies. Not only did Stalin know all about the bomb, but he knew that Britain and America did not know he knew (which is the gold dust of intelligence). And he demanded that his spies find out more.