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  The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

  George S. Patton

  Country, Military, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many of you are already doing a lot of international relations, I think. I so believe in student networks, and people that either study abroad or come to the United States to study, and the relationships that you all develop. You learn a lot from each other, but you all will see each other again in jobs along the way. And I think that makes a big difference. I so believe in what students can do.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• ...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Cost, Benefits, Matter

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.304, Penguin UK

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• The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

  Rory Stewart

  Humanitarian, Interventionism, Ought

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• The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

  Bernard Crick

  Order, Practice, Agony

  Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.

  Robert Kagan

  Order, Long, Vision

  "America has made the world freer, safer and wealthier" by Robert Kagan, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  Herman Kahn

  Technology, Issues, Decision

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• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Politics, Stakes

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Wisdom, Country

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• To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Not Giving Up, Years

  Winston S. Churchill (2014). “The Unwritten Alliance”, p.412, RosettaBooks

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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. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Communication, Men

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• We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Order, Law

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Passion, Enemy, Delight

  "Democracy in America".

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dubious, Matter, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.

  George F. Kennan

  Judging, Tendencies, Relation

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• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Afterlife, Want, Path

  "Today" on BBC Radio 4, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2005.

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• At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fall, Opportunity, Politics

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press

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• Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Names, Calling, Levels

  Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.

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• As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Law, United States, Reign

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.114, Random House

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• I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.

  Raoul Wallenberg

  Truth, Encounters, Example

  Raoul Wallenberg (1995). “Letters and Dispatches, 1924-1944”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

  Ron Paul

  Land, Usa, America

  "Ron Paul: Crimea secedes. So what?". www.usatoday.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concerning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, Decision, Peaceful

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• Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

  Robert Gilpin

  War, Important, Evolution

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.171, Princeton University Press

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• Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Assuming, Burden

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