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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• Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Used, Conjunctions, Verification

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

  Julian Burnside

  Kind, Sometimes, Tact

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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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• 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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• Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, Lord, Honour

  'Hansard' 16 July 1878.

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• What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

  John Prendergast

  Done, Assertion

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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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• 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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• Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Leader, Arrogance

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

  Alain Juppe

  Country, Giving, Community

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