Quotes About Diplomacy

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

the militay dont start wars, politicians start wars

A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies.

Humans want peace, not war. But, sometimes war is needed to establish peace!

Buruma is wise to recommend a balance of concessions and coordination in order to avoid war.

Words are weapons of war.

There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be an Answer.

You can't demand peace, but you can reduce the reasons for war.

In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

To achieve peace, we needed to have a war to start with.

No Two person are enemies to each other unless on joins politics

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign.

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.

Going to war to establish peace will not bring peace. It will just kill you.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.