Top Diplomacy Quotes

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West P...

Diplomacy Definition

(n.) The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

(n.) Dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.

(n.) The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production of yellow...

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

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness...

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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

Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing number of diplomats (to say nothing of the burgeoning number...

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden not silence.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.

The very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent. Yes, we are compelled to make peace, we submit to force majeure, but...

Diplomacy the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

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.

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unas...

IF you draw a line in the sand you betray the loyalty of your cause

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the...