#dip

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#atmosphere #creates #diplomacy #distrust #however

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#anything #conducting #diplomacy #i #out

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#america #diplomatic #entirely #jews #nations

I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did. ↗

— William Devane

#along #alter #because #begin #care

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#between #diplomatic #discussion #every #every nation

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#diplomacy #inspirational #communication

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play,can't know serendipity unless you risk. ↗

— Joan Erickson

#inspiration #life #risk #serendipity #art

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#art

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. ↗

— Robert Byron

#nationalism #reason #taboos #business

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#conversation #diplomacy #communication