Quotes about Diplomacy
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
— Nelson Mandela
The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
The only alternative to war is peace, and the only road to peace is negotiations.
— Golda Meir
Peace is the language we must speak.
— Pope Francis
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
— St. Augustine
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
— John F. Kennedy
When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him. You don't stand across the room and shout at him; you don't call him a dummy; you don't order him to come over to where you are. You start where he is, and work from that position. That's the only way to get him to budge.
— John Maxwell
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
— Dale Carnegie
Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
— Joshua 22:21
As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.
— Dorothy Sayers
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
— Abraham Lincoln