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Quotes for International Relation Subject

 “The matter of International Relations is very subtle and exquisite.”

-Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“Realism can break a writer’s heart.”

-Salman Rushdie, Shame

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”

-H.L. Mencken

“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.”

-William Proxmire

“Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.”

-John F. Kennedy

“No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of the none.”

-Henry A. Kissinger

“Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.”

-Kemal Ataturk

“Great is the guilt of unnecessary war.”

-John Adams

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

-Leo Tolstoy

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.”

-John F. Kennedy

“So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.”

-Hassan Nasrullah

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”

-Albert Einstein

“We deny your internationalism, because it is luxury which only the upper classes can afford.”

-Benito Mussolini

“It is rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare, which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians, should never be used.”

-Sean MacBride

“Diplomacy is art of telling people to go hell in such as a way that they ask for directions.”

-Winston S. Churchill

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”

-Mario Puzo

“The world is governed by the institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”

-Jose Saramago

“The United Nations is our great hope for a peaceful and free world.”

-Ralpha Bunche

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The revolution does not need historians.”

-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”

-Leonid Brezhnev

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really any easy way: Stop participating in it.”

-Noam Chomsky 

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”

-Howard Zinn

“With guns you can kill terrorist; with education you can kill terrorism.”

-Malala Yousafzai

“The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalization and economic development.”

-Anna Lindh

“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.”

-Henry Kissinger

“Foreign Policy deals across the time as well as space.”

-William Pfaff

“It is not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it is not enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

“Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.”

-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.”

-Margaret Thatcher

“India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the batter of heart and minds. It’s like treating cancer with dispirin.”

-Imran Khan

“As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.”

-Li Peng

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

-Howard Zinn