Diplomacy Quote by keith laumer

“One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.”

— Condoleezza Rice

“Diplomacy cannot thrive in an environment where ego overshadows ethics. Toxic leadership turns negotiations into battlegrounds and progress into casualties.”

— Abhysheq Shukla

“Come now, Mr. Windsor. Even with your limited knowledge and frame of reference, you must recognize that diplomacy is merely a cover for the…

— Patrick E. McLean

“A diplomat’s words must have no relation to actions—otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.”

— George Friedman

“What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices…

— Jane Austen

“Reverence reduces hostility.”

— Toba Beta

“Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.”

— Angelica Hopes

“Then most our trouble still when most admired, And still the more we give, the more required; Whose fame with pains we guard, but…

— Alexander Pope

“Ambassadors, of course, do not blush. It is a requisite of the job that they can sustain any manner of insult without any visible…

— Sarah Dunant

“Moody had no small genius for the art of diplomacy. As a child he had known instinctively that it was always better to tell…

— Eleanor Catton

“It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the…

— Tim Macartney-Snape