140 Quotes About International-relations

In the lives of nations the really worthwhile things cannot and will not be hidden.

Diplomacy, if conducted sensibly, is a matter of small gains offset by small losses, an attempt to maintain a state of equilibrium in which catastrophes are either mitigated or, with luck, avoided entirely.

How can you cry for others’ struggles when you are facilitating mayhem in your own land?

The "compleat diplomat" of the future should remain cognizant of realism's emphasis on the inescapable role of power, keep liberalism's awareness of domestic forces in mind, and occasionally reflect on constructivism's vision of change.

Nation without narrowness is a land universal.

It is the duty of the United Nations, is to make every international border a garden, a place of art and cultural festival.

Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige with the electorate. But the time will come when the names of these public figures will be erased from history. Nobody will remember them any longer. But the Western peoples will have to pay heavily for these overtrusting agreements.

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

The driver of deterrence success is not nuclear weapons, it is nuclear posture. Nuclear weapons may deter, but they deter unequally.