International Relations Quotes - Page 3

• People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

  John Adams

  Adversity, Fire, People

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• Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

  Linus Pauling

  World, Today, Chemistry

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• A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Wise, War, Men

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 39), 1952.

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• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Anger, Hatred, Feelings

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• Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  War, Unhappy, Politics

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Struggle, Fundamentals, World

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• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

  Dean Acheson

  Dull, Politics, Requirements

  In Observer 21 June 1970

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

  John Adams

  Peace, War, History

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

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• To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

  George Santayana

  Love, War, Calling

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.56, 谷月社

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• If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ifs

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• As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Time, Truth, Long

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• The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

  Agnes Repplier

  Common, Relation, Interest

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• When diplomacy ends, War begins.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Mein Kampf, Ends

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• War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

  Julius Caesar

  War, Giving, Politics

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Two, Long

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• We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Suicide, War, Politics

  In Observer 4 May 1930

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• There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.

  Walter Wriston

  Hands, Political, Growing

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• Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Army, Politics

  "Mao's Road to Power: The pre-Marxist period, 1912-1920".

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• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Honey, Bees

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• The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

  Sitting Bull

  Meat, Borders, Buffalo

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.

  Shinzo Abe

  Important, Needs, Prosperity

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• These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.

  Robert Gilpin

  Character, Our World, Organization

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mafia, Bears, Relation

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