International Relations Quotes

• Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Friends, Men

  Address to the Canadian Parliament, May 17, 1961.

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• The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Future, Vision, Working Together

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• A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

  Madeleine Albright

  Moving, Thinking, Games

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• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Communication, People

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• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Believe, Fidgeting

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

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• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Historical, Perception

  Interview to Chinese Media in India, mea.gov.in. May 09, 2013.

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• The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Order, Needs, Relation

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Matter, Subtle, Relation

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• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Order, Law, Essentials

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• He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

  Plato

  Country, Thinking, Wish

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• I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Thinking, Space

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Men, Stupidity

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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• A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Perfection, Demand

  "Reflections on Containment". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 3, p. 130, June 1994.

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• To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Geography And History, Theory, Relation

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press

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• In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taught Us, World, Lessons

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  Peace, Real, War

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• Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Integrity, Hate, Patriotic

  Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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• Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.

  Ramsey Clark

  Honesty, Foundation, Business Education

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• The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

  William Greider

  Globalization, Regimes, Instruments

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• The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

  A. Powell Davies

  Brotherhood, World, Politics

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Enemy, Allies, Politics

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