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“An ambassador is an honest man who is sent to lie abroad for the good of his Country” [“Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum Reipublicae causa”], 1600s

H. Nicolson argues that “H. Wotton scribbled this remark as a joke in [friend's] album at Augsburg”.”
― Sir Henry Wotton

“Diplomacy frequently consists in soothingly saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you have a chance to pick up a rock.”
― Walter Trumbull

“I observe and remain silent.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
― Robin Hobb

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
― Tony Benn

“Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score”
― Frederick the Great

“One of the hardest things about diplomacy is to put yourself into someone else's shoes without compromising your own principles.”
― Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.”
― Daniele Vare

“Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior."- Hun, A. T.”
― Robert Lynn Asprin, Myth Conceptions

“Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.”
― Karen Traviss, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

“Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.”
― George F. Kennan

“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
― Will Durant

“A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.”
― Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male

“Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.”
― Christopher Nutall

“diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Diplomacy is not a veiling of the truth. It is the ability to be sensitive to the truth.”
― Bidemi Mark-Mordi

“A diplomat who says “yes” means “maybe", a diplomat who says “maybe" means “no”, and a diplomat who says “no” is no diplomat.”
― Talleyrand

“The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.”
― Robert Dallek, Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House

“War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
― Robert Frost

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.”
― Edward Heath

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
― Fundamentals of Chess 1883

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o'erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.

Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips shall no more crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels,
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its water be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toils for freedom's sake.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well and spread my tidings
Of the golden future time. ”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“«Ղեկավարի պարկեշտ պահվածքն ու ենթակային անձնական օրինակով ուղղորդելու կարողությունը մարտունակ եւ բարոյապես ամուր զինվորի դաստիարակության նախապայմաններից են: Յուրաքանչյուր ժողովրդի հաղթանակ առաջին հերթին ազգային համախմբվածության արդյունք է, որ պիտի կառուցված լինի խելամիտ հաշվարկների վրա»:”
― Մոնթե Մելքոնյան, Պայքարելու Իրավունքը

“«[...], հայոց պատմության վերջին էջը կարող է դառնալ, եթե կորցնենք այս հողամասը (Արցախը) [...]»:
«Արցախի կորուստը մի քանի տասնյակ տարի հետո կարող է նշանակել հայ ժողովրդի ամբողջական անհետացումը: Եթե ադրբեջանցիները գրավեն Արցախը, հաջորդը Զանգեզուրն է. բոլորս գիտենք, որ Զանգեզուրի վրա հողային պահանջներ ունեն [...]»:

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1993թ., հարցազրույց Արցախի հեռուստատեսությանը, վարում է Վարդգես Բաղրյանը, հատված վերջինիս «00»-ն կապի մեջ է» տեսաֆիլմից:”
― Մոնթե Մելքոնյան