Quotes and Sayings about Diplomacy

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I don't want to be like you. A diplomat who does nothing but sit around talking, while the warriors get to have epic adventures.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Diplomacy is a battle I has never learnt to fight.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Bob Marley had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - he said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

There is no "way to peace," there is only "peace".

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Everybody can fight. It's just a choice of whether you should.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

We make peace with our enemies, not our friends.

My daughter speaks with the wisdom beyond her years. We've all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, it will not start with me.

I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness -- not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world -- millions of despairing men, women and little children -- victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say -- do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -- the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes -- men who despise you -- enslave you -- who regiment your lives -- tell you what to do -- what to think or what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -- machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate! Only the unloved hate -- the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: 'the Kingdom of God is within man' -- not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power -- the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Does not a warm hand feel better than a cold shank?

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

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

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Before this war, I was opposed to membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start exactly the process that we have seen now. Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful. I believe Ukrainian membership in NATO would be an appropriate outcome.

Gold has value because it's rare. Life has value because it's short. Death gives life value.

Maya: "I was trying to win that gold for the orphanage."
Queen Teca: "Don't use those kids as an excuse. You were fighting for nothing more than glory."
King Teca: "There's nothing sweeter than glory! ...which is not the right thing to think."

It is hard to find one's way to light on a path that runs through darkness.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

This is the worst administration since Caligula.

More...more, I say!
In this time of the rise it's not sufficient!
It's not enough...

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.