International relations Quotes

“Patriotism is the antithesis of world peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't believe in ideology in international relations.

— Sergei Lavrov

I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.

— Anonymous

“War made the state, and the state made war”

— Charles Tilly

“You don't have to be a superpower to be a peacemaker.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“War is expensive, peace is free.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Love first; ask questions later.”

— Jeremy Courtney

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

— Adolf Hitler

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

— Herman Melville

China always urges that no use or threat of sanctions should be allowed in international relations.

— Li Zhaoxing

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“There is no 'right side of history', there is only their side, and yours”

— Holden R. Snow

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

— W. Averell Harriman

“Peace is an act of civic duty, not a task for the world leaders.”

— Abhijit Naskar

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

— Nick McDonell

“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market"…

— Arundhati Roy

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea…

— Anonymous

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of…

— Vladimir Putin

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention…

— William Kirby

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that…

— Hans Eysenck

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

— Shinzo Abe

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and…

— Kenneth Waltz

Mikhail Gorbachev's historic leadership, which transformed Russia and international relations, cannot be fully understood without the diary-memoir of Anatoly Chernyaev, one of…

— Stephen F. Cohen

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of…

— Antonio Guterres

When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris…

— Stacey Bendet

“The key to resolving international conflict with a positive outcome includes looking for a win-win situation, finding common ground, formulating proactive strategies,…

— Amit Ray

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which…

— Richard N. Haass

Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.…

— Daniel Drezner

“Lasting planetary peace cannot be attained by chasing after petty nationalistic insecurities. For that we must be whole, whole human beings. Individual…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“Renee: “The Greek government doesn’t know that I found anything that day in the temple. And they for sure wouldn’t want to…

— John C. Stipa

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“Unspoken Truths (The Sonnet) Democracy is people-approved dictatorship, Military is people-approved genocide. Atom bombs are people-approved armageddon, In conscience-court all guilty of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Sonnet Earthistan Earthistan is not a place, Earthistan is a people, People who've forgotten borders, Who ain't no sectarian sheeple. Earthistan is…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The challenge to which these two groups responded was the interdependence of human kind, North and South, Rich and Pool, Industrialised and…

— Prince Charles HRH the Prince of Wales

“The United States is the most powerful among the technically advanced countries in the world today. Its influence on the shaping of…

— Albert Einstein

“This book reveals the complexity of nurses’ motivations for joining. It probes how humanitarian nursing within a Quaker-based organization challenged nurses’ perception…

— Susan Armstrong-Reid