#diploma

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #back #diplomat #get #i

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

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid. ↗

— Aberjhani

#essays #global-community #philosophy #spirituality #w-e-b-du-bois

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#politics #hell

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#diplomats #how #in print #journalists #led

I was never the diplomatic diplomat. ↗

— Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#diplomatic #i #never

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#failed #forced #miserably #now #president

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#diplomats #every #modern #mouth #open

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. ↗

— Isaac Goldberg

#nicest #say #things #way