Quotes About Diplomacy

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place. But I kept on acting, and eventually, I just dropped out of school and continued acting.

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, even if someday a peace agreement were to be reached.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

no country inflicts death so readily upon the inhabitants of other countries, frightens so many people so far away, as America.

The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

Who can doubt that there is an American empire?—an "informal" empire, not colonial in polity, but still richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread around the luckless planet. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History (1984)

Nancy Goldstone

he liked picking Hector's brains on international subjects, or rather, allowing Hector's brains to flow over him in a glowing lava of thought.

He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?

It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular.

That man with my brother is an envoy

Think on it with a clear head. Lords and kings often don't ask for what they want, but they can afford to have bad manners.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means

the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.

The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.