Quotes About Diplomacy

Never use damaging personal information to invalidate your adversary and, by implication, his contentions. ... If you watch your words when you fight, the issue can usually be resolved.

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For the true warriors of the world, fighting is the last resort to solving a conflict. Every effort is made to avoid bloodshed

It was a principle of hers that you must never say anything about another person you would not say in that person's presence.

A wise administrator never admits to having enemies, and a yet wiser administrator never has enemies.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

What happens if you need a diplomat who can also practice philosophy fight with a lightsaber and levitate small objects Who else are you going to call but us Mara

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

La prudencia es la carta de presentación de las personas tipo C. Ellas se vanaglorian de poseer el valor de la discreción en grado superlativo. Dicen exactamente lo que los demás esperan que digan, y se comportan como se espera que lo hagan. Hacen gala de una diplomacia digna de los mejores embajadores.

Conozco personas que podrían manejar las relaciones árabe-israelíes o Moscú- Washington a la perfección, pero que no son capaces de expresar amor a sus seres queridos. La diplomacia es una profesión peligrosa.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

If you don't want refugees, help us make peace in Syria.

Forces from Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia encircled the town.

The Enterprise is on a diplomatic mission to meet the Jarada, an alien species with a peculiar affinity for protocol: if Picard doesn't speak a particular greeting in exactly the right way at exactly the right time, the Jarada won't join the Federation, and they'll take all their mythical Jaradan weed with them. You can imagine, the success of this mission is especially important to everyone on Starbase 420.

After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

war. A balanced peace is a poor fertilizer for promotion.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Sometimes it is better to give an opponent a small victory then suffer a devastating defeat yourself. Gabriel Allon

The Americans came in force, the French in style.