Diplomacy Quotes
Diplomacy Quote of the day
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?
Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years
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.
A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
