“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/feb/28/the-gulf in the House of Commons (28 February 1991) <br class="br">1990s
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British Labour Party politician 1925–2014Related quotes
“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
As quoted in Saturday Evening Post (27 March 1954); this is a play upon the famous maxim of Clausewitz: "War is the continuation of politics by other means".
“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Robert Fisk (1946) English writer and journalist
Preface (page XIX)
The Great War for Civilization (2005)
“To North Korea, diplomacy is another form of war.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
"Stranger Than Fiction" https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/opinion/stranger-than-fiction.html The New York Times (13 February 2005) <br class="br">2000s
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 31.
“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
As quoted in Wit (2003) by Des MacHale, p. 299
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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
“… the Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.”
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Extract from his 1922 election address, quoted in T.W. Walding (ed.), Who's Who in the New Parliament:Members and their pledges (Philip Gee, London, 1922), p. 35
1920s