Diplomacy Quotes

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I observe and remain silent.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Ciente de tuas capacidades e limitações, não inicies nenhuma empreitada que não possas levar a cabo.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.

Diplomacy never works.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence.

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,-great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Leaders must have splendid flavour of pretending for contending situations.