38 quotes found
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
“Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.”
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
“Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is what are we going to...”
“I observe and remain silent.”
“It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.”
“Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.”
“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.”
“I would rather contend with an honest asshole than a duplicitous diplomat.”
“Nothing can be changed in the system when the system itself is revolting against those who opposed violence.”
“How can you cry for others struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?”
“Diplomacy in leadership is winning the war on behalf of both sides”
“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. --U...”
“People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.”
“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”
“You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.”
“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicat...”
“Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.”
