Quotes About Diplomacy

Of course, we're there because of weapons of mass destruction that do not exist.

There is nothing in the world more harmful than war and more foolish than armament

The outlay for defense was 4.6 percent of the GDP in 1950; by 1953 it had risen to 13.8 percent. In 1940 the federal budget devoted 16 percent to defense; in 1959, more than 50 percent. By 1955, the American alliance system circled the globe, and we were pledged to the defense of practically everybody, including a host of despots and autocrats. The

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power...

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

Letters circulated without censorship, with a freedom that astonishes the twentieth-century mind.… The subjects of two warring nations talked to each other if they met, and when they could not meet, corresponded, not as enemies but as friends.

1. Diplomacy is the mercenary politeness of manipulators, modern culture consists of greedy hypocrisy, cynical myopia who value bad taste, obeying the herd instinct. The two-faced modern culture of politeness is a parody of indifference. Officially polite, but swearing in person, modern culture is a ghetto. 2. Pick the nerves of anger with a knife, there must be somewhere to switch from a lie to a state of truth. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Business is two-faced, hypocritical self-interest diplomacy.

Diplomacy is the mercenary politeness of manipulators, modern culture consists of greedy hypocrisy, cynical myopia who value bad taste and obey herd instinct. The two-faced modern culture of politeness is a parody of indifference. Officially polite, but swearing in person, modern culture is a ghetto.

Peace at home, peace in the world.

A heart warmth leader is always needed to bring peace where war has not benefitted anyone and when it's causing more harm than good.

As long as you have armies in the world, war cannot be avoided forever. It can be postponed for a certain time only. Taking a short break.

Citizens associate the art of diplomacy with peace, without considering that there is as much cruelty in diplomacy as on the battlefield.

Diplomacy does not mean to become soft, but to be more cunning like a fox than the normal citizen. Killing two birds with one word.

Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.

England won her territories not by wars or armies, but by trade and commerce. China is following in the same footsteps.