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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Quote by Rebecca West about politics, knowledge

We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

Quote by Li Peng about politics, hope

It is the consistent position of the Chinese Government to oppose and condemn international terrorism of all descriptions, and oppose fulfilling political or other agendas through international terrorist means and violent terrorist activities by...

Quote by Li Peng about country

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Quote by Dean Acheson about nation

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature, home, house, peace, idea, need, faith

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about peace, day

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

Quote by Gerry Adams about purpose

Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

Quote by Richard Ernst about need

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Quote by Hans Eysenck about diplomacy, tact, politics, science, affair, things

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about wish

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international...

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about war, man, nothing

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, essential, faith, world

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about politics, opinion, wish, country, war, power

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about impossible, state, war

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about measure, nation

Certainly the idea of an international police force effective against a big disturber of the peace seems today unrealizable to the point of absurdity.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about idea, police, force, peace

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about meetings, pleasure

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty, war

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Quote by Li Peng about country, wealth, world