Diplomacy Quotes Quotes

“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

“When music speaks, everybody understands”
― Paolo Petrocelli

“As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle staying more than 30 years of their entire life lying or hiding from the electors what really happen behind the political curtain of our status quo. This is one of the rare cases that a politician can swear in front of any deity or authority without any hesitation: “I really appreciate your ignorance or indifference about politics. It’s a blessing for me in my lifetime”.”
― Frederick Vanderbuilt

“Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvre is like music with instruments.”
― Salam Al Shereida

“It's not surprising that we are all craving for the diplomas, degrees and masters. I strongly believe that journey began with your birth certificate. Which is safely kept inside the house, where it belongs!”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If Diplomacy were easy, everyone could do this, Rann.”
― Richard R. Matthews, Diplomat of Uram

“Diplomacy is beautiful, but it must also follow the famous maxim of nothing in excess.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Some neighbouring countries of Dem. Rep. of the Congo are full of ambitions and they will bring their own downfall in the near future.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish.
Or, failing that, money.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice

“I should like to caution you agains the perils of an exercise marked by an exchange of verbiage even in poetic language. But, in international relations, soft words butter no parsnips any more than harsh words break any bones. Ad-hocism and dilletantism are fraught with grave consequences.”
― PN Haksar

“Sometimes, there is only a thin line between diplomacy and a lie.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The most rewarding aspect of sanctions is that they foster self-reliance and uphold genuine independence from external influence.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Those who advocate for war are often the ones who never fight in it.”
― Eduvie Donald

“What made massive UN corruption possible was not so much the lies we told one another but the lies we told ourselves.”
― Michael Soussan, Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy