Quotes About Diplomacy

I gave it to him because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

Every war is not worth fighting and every victory is not worth celebratingbecause not ever disagrement should creat an enemy.

Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz -- Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.

The wise warrior avoids the battle.

Tact is an ability to live in the midst of ugliness without getting ugly.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [Fr., Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.]

He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious fool with just a thin veneer of cordiality that the Right produces by the dozen and which the Left reproduces and imitates whenever they're in power, as if they were the victims of some form of contagion.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

Solía plantear cinco alternativas para que el presidente escogiera, enumerando en primer y último lugar las opciones más extremas y poniendo en medio las que Kissinger prefería.

La mejor manera de explotar el deseo de ganar puntos de tu contrincante es permitir que los gane. Concédele puntos que no perjudiquen tu objetivo de forma irreparable.