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> [Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/diplomacy-is-unfashionable-in-the-world-of-knee-jerk-reaction-and-the/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

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## More by Douglas Hurd

> [We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/we-britain-and-germany-can-neither-of-us-be-happy-about-our-handling/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/diplomacy-is-unfashionable-in-the-world-of-knee-jerk-reaction-and-the/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/we-must-admit-that-history-is-enjoyable-to-a-large-extent-because-it/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/it-is-normal-for-politicians-in-all-countries-to-profess-themselves/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/it-depends-on-how-it-is-done-but-what-we-are-drifting-into-which-is/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/war-on-iraq-runs-the-risk-of-turning-the-middle-east-into-an/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/there-is-nothing-false-or-arrogant-about-german-pride-in-german/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/some-people-find-it-difficult-to-argue-with-a-woman-prime-minister/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/prison-is-an-expensive-way-of-making-bad-people-worse/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/a-genuinely-democratic-iraq-might-well-act-as-a-fresh-spur/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/men-like-hitler-and-stalin-and-their-immediate-lieutenants-cannot/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [The tragedy of 9-11 galvanized the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/the-tragedy-of-9-11-galvanized-the-american-superpower-into-action/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/i-may-be-wrong-in-that-but-not-i-think-in-putting-the-questions-in/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/we-should-be-wary-of-politicians-who-profess-to-follow-history-while/)

[Douglas Hurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-hurd/)

> [Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-hurd/margaret-thatcher-growing-up-in-a-bombed-and-battered-britain-derived/)

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