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Quotes About Diplomacy

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
~ Plato
Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.
~ Ahmet Davutoglu
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.
~ Khaled Mashal
I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live in peace forever.
~ Asif Ali Zardari
We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.
~ Khaled Mashal
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
~ Jan Masaryk
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
~ Michael Scheuer
It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.
~ Edward Kennedy
You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
~ Alberto Fujimori
The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
~ Barack Obama
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
~ Leon Blum
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
~ Jacques Chirac
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting
~ Ambrose Bierce
Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper
~ Emmanuel Jal
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
~ Bernard Baruch
We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.
~ Ashraf Ghani
We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.
~ John F. Kennedy