International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
“That's Irish diplomacy for you. Huh? The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going.” — Gabrielle Evans Copy Share Image
Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'm going to be bringing people into the public diplomacy function of the department who are going to change from just selling… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Even in the best of times, the United States' ability to influence events in faraway places is limited. The tools we have,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
“A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To… — Morgan Ortagus Copy Share Image
You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally, — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.” — Michael Soussan Copy Share Image
“This proved to me that no matter how diametrically opposed your views may be from another's if you can succeed in knowing… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they… — Alice Bailey Copy Share Image
America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of… — Geoffrey Household Copy Share Image
Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“If you really want peace, what is there to talk about? It’s when you really don’t want peace, that you want to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At times I watch the news and see they talkin' 'bout diplomacy and they ain't got a clue my niggas ain't got… — J Cole Copy Share Image
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A diplomat who says yes means maybe, a diplomat who says maybe means no, and a diplomat who says no is no… — Charles M De Talleyrand Copy Share Image
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“Diplomacy cannot thrive in an environment where ego overshadows ethics. Toxic leadership turns negotiations into battlegrounds and progress into casualties.” — Abhysheq Shukla Copy Share Image
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.” — keith laumer Copy Share Image
There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,. — Li Zhaoxing Copy Share Image
