International Quotes

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. (George Bernard Shaw)
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. View quote
H. G. Wells
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. View quote
Barack Obama
International law exists only in textbooks on international law. View quote
Albert Einstein
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
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. View quote
Arthur Henderson
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy. (Alfred Hermann Fried)
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. View quote
James Meade
Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience. View quote
Norman Angell
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. View quote
Martti Ahtisaari
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and... manipulates the credit of the United States. View quote
Barry Goldwater
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements. (Condoleezza Rice)
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest that the USA bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline. View quote
Dmitry Rogozin
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. View quote
Stephane Hessel