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21 " Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. "
― Iain Pears , The Dream of Scipio
22 " Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spectators. The USIA's model of democracy and the free market is promoted as the superpower version of economic globalization, packaged and ready for shipping to clients throughout the world. In this version, foreign capital flows freely while the movement of people, particularly the world's poor, is strictly controlled. Such a commercial package speaks first and foremost for government 'partners,' the Fortune 500 corporations, which are the primary beneficiaries as well as the bankrollers of the American political process. This is a packaged story of America that is incomplete and undemocratic. Where do workers and communities fit into the story? How do private citizens play a part in building dialogue across cultures? "
― Nancy Snow , Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World
23 " A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate. "
24 " You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background "
― George F. Kennan
25 " I think there is a substantial difference between hypocrisy and diplomacy: hypocrisy is not saying things, diplomacy is knowing how to say things. "
― Luigina Sgarro
26 " The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic subjects.... And there's that famously elegant subtitle from a classic Western.COWBOY: " Gimme a shot of red-eye." SUBTITLE: " Un Dubonnet, s'il vous plait." No wonder French was the language of diplomacy for all those years. "
27 " Diplomacy is an art of tackling our enemies. Using diplomacy on dear ones, in order to make measurable gains, is just like using a sword in place of a needle. We will be left bare very soon, and visibly so. "
28 " In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best. "
― Lee Marvin
29 " Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. "
30 " Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? "
31 " A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. "
32 " Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. "
33 " Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. "
34 " Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. "
35 " Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. "
36 " New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there. "
37 " One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. "
38 " There are no military solutions - dialogue and diplomacy are the only guarantee of lasting peace. "
39 " Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. "
