Quotes on International relations, War,

Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Some of the quotes I found on International relations , War, Foreign policy and Diplomacy
which could be used in Essay and Others. Best of these are highlighted in color.

“There is some self interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self interests.
This is a bitter Truth” ― Chanakya

“When diplomacy ends, War begins.” ― Adolf Hitler

“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history
books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.” ― Bill Vaughan,
journalist

“If it’s wrong when they do it, it’s wrong when we do it.” ― Noam Chomsky

“…..foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.” ― Fareed Zakaria

“He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to
act” ― Plato

“International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power” ― Hans J. Morgenthau

“War made the state, and the state made war” ― Charles Tilly

“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.” ― Stephen M. Walt

“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be
waged intelligently.” ― Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities
become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.” ― Marjorie Watts

“We have not eternal allies and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and
peretual and those interests it is out duty to follow.” ― Lord Palmerston, British Prime
Minister

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” ―John Adams

”It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whoever has an army has power, and war decides everything.”― Mao Tse Tung

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” ― Mao Tse Tung

“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the
vanquished.” ― Julius Caesar

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” ―
George S. Patton, General

“To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” ― George
Washington

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run, the sword will
always be conquered by the spirit.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

”Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other
than your own comes first.” ― Charles de Gaulle

“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.” ― George
Santayana

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in
it.” ― G.B. Shaw

“Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.” ― Anne
O’Hare McCormick

“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at
stake.” ― Viktor Frankl

“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.” ― Gen. Omar Bradley

“He who does not attempt to make peace when small discords arise, Is like the bee’s hive which
leaks drops of honey .Soon, the whole hive collapses.” ― Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.)

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless
act of a single day.” ― Sir Winston Churchill

“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.” ― Arthur Powell Davies

“We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.” ― James Ramsay MacDonald, British
Prime Minister

“The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.” ― Dwight
Eisenhower

“A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many
have been precipitated by reckless haste.” ― Adlai Stevenson

“Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in
compromise and is most careful to avoid anger.” ― Alex de Tocqueville

“The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.” ― Sitting Bull

“People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.” ― John Adams

“I love my country far too much to be a nationalist.” ― Unknown

“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.” ― Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.” ― Bertrand Russell

“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded
pygmies.” – Lester Pearson

“Patriotism corrupts history.” ― Goethe

“The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.” ― Dean Acheson

“Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.” ― Charles de Gaulle

“Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.” ―
Goethe

“At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as
there is an opportunity.” ― Schopenhauer

“There’ll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so
rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably
national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based
politics.” ― Walter Wriston

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument of violence has become in international relations ,
the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs , specifically in the matter of
revolution – Hannah Arendt
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess, where people sit quietly ,
thinking out their strategy , taking their time between moves.It’s more like a game of billiards,
with a bunch of balls clustered together – Madeleine Albright

Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international
relations . – J.William Fulbright

Domestic policy can only defeat us ; foreign policy can kill us – John F.Kennedy

Maybe we ought to consider a golden rule in foreign policy : Don’t do to other nations what we
don’t want happening to us.We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get
upset with us ? – Ron Paul

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 none – Henry A.Kissinger

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on – Hubert H. Humphrey

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

“The question shouldn’t be what we ought to do, but what we can do.” ― Rory Stewart

” When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says
no he is no diplomat.” – Unknown

“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten” – Mark
Twain

“Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your
enemies.” – Kofi Busia

“A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look
forward to the trip.” – Caskie Stinnett

“A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.”
– Trygve Lie

“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.” – Will Durant

“Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of
politeness.” – Otto von Bismarck

“Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.” – Isaac Goldberg
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
– Robert Frost

“Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.” – Daniele Vare

“Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills”. – Unknown

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy” – Tony Benn

“Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the
cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of
war.” – Randolph Bourne

“Diplomacy: The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.” – Wynn Catlin

“Diplomacy – The art of letting other people achieve your ends” – Unknown

“DIPLOMACY – the patriotic art of lying for one’s country.” – Ambrose Bierce

“In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.” – Thomas
Pickering

“Ambassadors are the eye and ear of States.” – Guicciardini

“An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.” – 
Sir Henry
Wotton

“In a world where war is everybody’s tragedy and everybody’s nightmare, diplomacy is
everybody’s business.” – 
Lord Strang

“Foreign policy is what you do; diplomacy is how you do it. Of course the two get mixed up
especially when a diplomat is advising on policy or a member of the Government normally
engaged in policy decision takes over a diplomatic operation which seems to merit top level or
summit discussion. But generally speaking the task of a government is to decide and the task of a
diplomat at any level is to try to make the decision work”. -
 Lord Gore-Booth

“We live in a modern world in which nation states are interdependent. In that modern world
foreign policy is not divorced from domestic policy but a central part of any political
programme”. -
Robin Cook

“Our foreign policy must have an ethical dimension and must support the demands of other
peoples for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves”. – Robin Cook
Quotes on Hunger, Food, Food Security
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are” – Jean Anthelme

“A fistful of food is the only god for a man of hunger” – M.K.Gandhi

“There are people in the world so hungry, that god can not appear to them except in the form of
bread” – M.K.Gandhi

“Hunger : One of the few cravings that can not be appeased with another solution” – Irwin Van
Grove

“Hunger never saw bad bread” – Benjamin Franklin

“In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost one billion still
do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime “– Ban
Ki Moon

“The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s
responsibility until I’m ready to eat it” ― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s
Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“Food security is not in the supermarket. It’s not in the government. It’s not at the emergency
services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the
abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are
not dependent on next week’s farmers’ market or the electronic cashiers at the
supermarket.”― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier
Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter
acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one
hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to
cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its
production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has
been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is
causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.”― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-
Straw Revolution

“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a
journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without
conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain’t normal.” ― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’t
Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“That many if not most people…who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the
supermarket after they’ve been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is
not a tribute to modern technology; it’s an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility
and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.” ― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A
Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don’t engage with the local
bounty to lay by for tomorrow’s unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as
a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve
these issues.” ― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier
Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles….If every U.S.
citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and
produce we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every
week.”― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Quotes on Environment,
Sustainable Development
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Some quotes on Environment and Sustainable Development. Useful for essay, environment,
sustainable development, biodiversity and climate change related topics.

“Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been
caught, will we realize that we can not eat money ! ”

“Nature has enough for man’s need but not for man’s greed” – Mahatma Gandhi

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to
ourselves and to one another ” – Mahatma Gandhi

“We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” – Margaret Mead

“He who plants a tree plants a hope” – Lucy Larcom

“The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan
from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us” –
Mahatma Gandhi

“Imagine if trees gave off wifi signals, we would be planting so many trees and we’d probably
save the planet too. Too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today” – Chinese proverb

“When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves” – David Orr

“If you really think the economy is more important than the environment, try holding your breath
whilst you count your money” – Dr.Guy Mcpherson

“The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot
sustain the environment we can not sustain ourselves” – Wangari Maathai

“The greatest threat to our planet is the threat that someone else will save it”- Robert Swan

“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven” – Rabindranath Tagore

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What
you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
— Jane Goodall

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air
and giving fresh strength to our people.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Gandhi

“I don’t want to protect the environment , I want to create a world where the environment
doesn’t need protecting”

“Sustainable development is like teenage sex – everybody claims they are doing it but most
people aren’t, and those that are, are doing it very badly”

Quotes on Water
Some useful quotes on water, can be used in Essay and Environment related topics.

“Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry” – Thomas Fuller
“Water, water everywhere but not just a drop to drink, just think about it.”

“A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold for a thirsty man”

“The wars of the twenty first century will be fought over water” – Ismail serageldin

“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water” – Swedish
Proverb

“Water is the driver of nature” – Leonardo Da Vinci

“We forget that water cycle and life cycle are one” – Jacques Cousteau

“Water, the Hub of Life.

Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium.
Water is the most extraordinary substance!
Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for
its machinery.
Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“When you conserve water, you conserve life”

“Save water, it will save you later”

uotes on Women
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Some quotes on woman , which could be used for essay and other questions.The facts on
women’s empowerment , status etc will follow in a separate article.

” Yatra Naryastu Pujyante Ramante Tatra Devata ।

Yatraitaastu Na Pujyante Sarvaastatrafalaah Kriyaah ।। “

Meaning: “Where Women Are Honored , Divinity Blossoms There; And Where They Are
Dishonored , All Action Remains Unfruitful.” – Excerpt from Manusmriti

” Women constitute half the world’s population , perform nearly two thirds of its work hours ,
receive one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one hundredth of the world’s property
” – Excerpt from United Nations report 1980 (Though its old the status of women has not
changed much but rather deteriorated more )

” Educate a man and you educate an individual , educate a woman and you educate a family ” –
A.Cripps

” Women are real architects of society ” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

” If the world was taking care of Women, Women would take care of the world ” – Jane
Roberts

” One is not born a woman, One becomes a Woman ” – Simone de Beauvoir

” It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is
improved.It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.” – Swami Vivekananda

” Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out , we will fall
off the edge” – Unknown

The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of a female begins when the doctor says ,
” It’s a girl” – Shirley Chisholm

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say ” She
doesn’t have what it takes “.They will say ” Women don’t have what it takes ” – Clare Boothe
Luce

I asked a Burmese , why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He
said there were many unexploded land mines since the war – Robert Mueller

” All nations have attained greatness by paying proper respects to women.That country and that
nation which do not respect women have never become great, nor will ever be in future ” –
Swami Vivekananda

” It’s a tragedy that since the time the first human opened his eyes , he started subjugating his
own creator ” – Unknown

” One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of
it’s women ” – Charles Fourier

” Woman is the companion of man gifted with equal mental capacities ” – Mahatma Gandhi

” Without economic freedom other aspects of women equality would never be realized ” –
Nehru

” It is not biology , but civilization that is responsible for such status of woman ” – Simone de
Beauvoir
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding
the problems of running a country.” – Margaret Thatcher

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” –
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in
councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal
union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.” – Susan B.
Anthony

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the
whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights
and nothing less.” – Susan B. Anthony

“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” – Diane
Mariechild

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”- Mary Wollstonecraft

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” – Roseanne
Barr

” For most of history , anonymous was woman.” – Virginia Wolf

” In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man.If you want anything done, ask a woman.” –
Margaret Thatcher

” I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved
” – B.R.Ambedkar

” It doesn’t matter who you are or where you came from.The ability to triumph begins with you
always.” – Oprah Winfrey

” Never underestimate the power of a woman ” – Nellie McClung

“You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman” – Jane Galvin Lewis

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“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”

― Adolf Hitler
tags: international-relations
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“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather
by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-
Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
tags: international-relations, violence, western-civilization, world-order
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“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come
from Texas.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
tags: international-relations
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“In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to
acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
tags: beauty, famous-poets, famous-quotes, famous-quotes-from-classic-books, flowers, global-
village, human-nature, international-relations, nations, peace, poetry, politics, war
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“Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that,
while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of
Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of
Despair.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium
tags: dark-humor, international-relations, israel, lug-nuts, middle-east, palestine, politics
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“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the
universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is
dangerous.”
― Samuel P Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
tags: cultural-biases, culture, international-relations, western-civilization, western-culture,
westernization
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“International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power”

― Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations
tags: international-relations, realpolitik
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“...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”

― Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
tags: foreign-affairs, international-relations, national-policy
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“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di')
but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of
mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no
Englishmen were listening.

And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of
Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a
sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials
among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
― Peter Hitchens
tags: accents, americans, anti-british-sentiment, braveheart, britons, eavesdropping, history,
international-relations, ireland, irish, paranoia, princess-diana, scotland, scots, television, uk-us-
relations, united-kingdom, united-states, wales
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“As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West
has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but
her eyes say yes.' The West thinks of itself as masculine -- big guns, big industry, big money --
so the East is feminine -- weak, delicate, poor...but good at art, and full of inscrutable wisdom --
the feminine mystique. Her mouth says no, but her eyes say yes. The West believes the East,
deep down, wants to be dominated -- because a woman can't think for herself. ...You expect
Oriental countries to submit to your guns, and you expect Oriental women to be submissive to
your men.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
tags: international-relations, political-philosophy
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“War made the state, and the state made war”

― Charles Tilly
tags: international-relations, the-state, war
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“The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in
some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient
to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment,
sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The
Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what
reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of
hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace
often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.”
― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address
tags: international-relations
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“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be
waged intelligently.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski
tags: international-relations, world-politics
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“I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and
hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
tags: inspirational, international-relations
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“If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you,
run.”
― Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a
War Zone
tags: international-relations, peacekeeping, thought-provoking, un
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“It is the duty of the United Nations, is to make every international border a garden, a place of art
and cultural festival.”
― Amit Ray, Nuclear Weapons Free World Peace on the Earth
tags: cultural-festival, garden, international-community, international-development,
international-law, international-relations, nuclear-proliferation, nuclear-weapons, place-of-art,
united-nations
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“United Nations should be like a caring mother having many children. Its role is to grow trust
and respect among the siblings with stron