Diplomat Quotes

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Individual liberty is the whole purpose of political life, and I thought it was threatened then [in 1964 becoming politically engaged at age 15] and I think it's threatened now.

Today we only smile, we laugh no more,
And e'en our very pleasures seem to bore.

François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis

Of these no more. From Orders, Slaves and Kings,
To thee, O Man, my heart rebounding springs.
Behold th' ascending bliss that waits your call,
Heav'n's own bequest, the heritage of all.
Awake to wisdom, seize the proffer'd prize;
From shade to light, from grief to glory rise.
Freedom at last, with Reason in her train,
Extends o'er earth her everlasting reign…

They're a burden for us
the friends who no longer know how to die.

Giorgos Seferis

If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

It is an observation which all the world can verify, that there is nothing so deplorable as the conduct of some celebrated mathematicians in their own affairs, nor anything so absurd as their opinions on the sciences not within their jurisdiction.

Democracy cannot be built on revenge and you will not have the support of the world if you are intolerant and take the law into your own hands.

Madeleine Albright

Good government can be no substitute for self-government.

Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

The so-called Al-Qaeda is, in my opinion, an illusion. It is a bunch of organizations which used to be supervised by the CIA, and used to commit crimes in some Arab and Islamic countries.

Riyad Naasan Agha

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

Gabriela Mistral

Let your motto be RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their Liberty without resistance. What kind of resistance you had better make, you must decide by the circumstances that surround you, and according to the suggestion of expediency.

Henry Highland Garnet

For what, in all the world, is more common than love? What state, what little town, what family lacks examples? Who, that has reached his thirtieth year, has not endured some villainy for love's sake? I conjecture from myself whom love has sent into a thousand perils, and I thank the Gods above that I have a thousand times escaped the ambushes prepared for me; more fortunate in my star than Mars whom Vulcan took with Venus, and caught them in an iron net, and displayed them, as a laughing-stock, to the other Gods.

I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God.

Aristides de Sousa Mendes

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

James Russell Lowell

The more true science advances, the more it discovers God, almost, as though he were standing, vigilant behind every door which science opens.

Just like Love is yonder rose,
Heavenly fragrance round it throws,
Yet tears its dewy leaves disclose,
And in the midst of briars it blows
Just like Love.

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Josephus Daniels

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.

Last words:

I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

The gossip that came back to me from fashionable dinners where people pitied poor Romain Gary, who must be a little sad, a little jealous of the meteoric rise in the literary firmament of his cousin Emile Ajar… I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Robert Spencer: Just ask all those secular republics in the Islamic world.