"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States."

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Source : "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Needs Quotes #Littles Quotes #Empires Quotes

“Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. Theyâ€™re inseparable.”

Source : Jim Stengel (2012). “Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies”, p.1, Random House
“Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.”
“Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.”
“Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.”
“The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.”
“Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.”
“My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.”
“Believe that a further shore...is reachable from here.”

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