International Relations Quotes

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Order, Needs, Relation

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

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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

  William Greider

  Globalization, Regimes, Instruments

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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