Diplomacy Quotes

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

The art of life is to show your hand.

There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.

Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror.

We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

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

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Diplomacy (game) - Diplomacy is an American strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in the United States in 1959. Its main distinctions

Diplomacy (disambiguation) - Economic diplomacy Preventive diplomacy Public diplomacy Shuttle diplomacy Track II diplomacy Transformational Diplomacy Category:Types of diplomacy Category:Diplomacy

Gunboat diplomacy - In international politics, gunboat diplomacy (or Big Stick ideology in U.S. history) refers to the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of

Sister city - Center on Public Diplomacy. A March 2014 debate in the British House of Lords acknowledged the evolution of town twinning into city diplomacy, particularly

Debt-trap diplomacy - Debt trap diplomacy is used to describe a type of diplomacy based on debt carried out in the bilateral relations between countries with an often alleged

Checkbook diplomacy - be confused with Dollar diplomacy. Not to be confused with Debt-trap diplomacy. Checkbook diplomacy, or chequebook diplomacy, is used to describe a foreign

Commercial diplomacy - Commercial diplomacy is diplomacy that focuses on development of business between two countries. It aims at generating commercial gains in the form of

Dollar diplomacy - Dollar diplomacy of the United States—particularly during President William Howard Taft's presidential term— was a form of American foreign policy to

Shuttle diplomacy - In diplomacy and international relations, shuttle diplomacy is the action of an outside party in serving as an intermediary between (or among) principals

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.