Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)
“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".
“Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.”
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), State Department Management, Leadership Perspectives
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/feb/28/the-gulf in the House of Commons (28 February 1991) <br class="br">1990s
“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142
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