Diplomacy Quotes - Page 7

• I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Weapons, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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• I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Girl, Boys, Bars

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• Everybody's still talking about diplomacy and I'm very hopeful that as long as we talk about diplomacy, as long as we're not talking about enforcement measures, sanctions, et cetera, we are on the right track. But we need to accelerate the process.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Talking, Long, Track

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• When diplomacy ends, War begins.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Mein Kampf, Ends

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Witty, Powerful

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

  Julian Burnside

  Kind, Sometimes, Tact

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• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Sarcastic, Art, Truth

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• I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

  S.M. Stirling

  Stranger, Diplomatic

  S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.316, Penguin

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• Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Police, Costumes

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Conflict, Resolution, Negotiation

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• With a group of people, it's easer to say, I want this, this and this. It's different with the soloists, because they are the ones who will be in the spotlight. You can't force an interpretation on them. With soloists, it's all about diplomacy.

  Laurence Equilbey

  People, Groups, Different

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

  Samuel Pisar

  Science, Building Up, Arms

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• I observe and remain silent.

  Elizabeth I

  Silent

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• We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Memorable, Engagement

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Men, Names

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.162

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• I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.

  Myrtle Reed

  Army, Personality, Rabbits

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• I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

  Jimmy Cliff

  Ghetto, Want

  Source: www.gq.com

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• As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Player, Games, Profound

  Lacon: or many things in afew words (p. 345)

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• By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Nuclear, Unleashing

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• Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

  Joseph Cirincione

  Iran, Years, Trying

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• Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.

  Dick Gephardt

  War, Winning, May

  "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.

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• The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

  Richard N. Haass

  Hands, Upper Hand, Pushing

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• Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Russia, Space, Expansion

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• War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

  Martin Firrell

  War, Mean, Talking

  Text projections onto the Guards Chapel, Household Division of the British Army, London, www.martinfirrell.com. November 2009.

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