International Quotes

There is a set of rules that has grown up among nations to govern their relations with one another. It is called the law of nations or international law. International law is based on the idea that nations in time of peace should do each other as much good as possible and in time of […]

Photography is the only ‘language’ understood in all parts of the world and bridging all nations and cultures. It links the family of man.

If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first. (on the need for an international coalition re Iraq)

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

There is more to be said for trying to engage and to draw these societies into the international community than to cut them off.

Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international […]

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights.

Contrary to what Jacques Chirac maintained, globalization is not a “cultural steamroller.” It is and always has been an engine of enrichment. Think, for example, how the French artistic sensibility was revitalized by the discovery – or rather fuller knowledge – of Japanese painting afforded at the end of the nineteenth century, or by the […]

Cultural cross-fertilizations are indifferent to political antagonisms. It was during the first half of the seventeenth century, when France and Spain were frequently at war, that the creative influence of Spanish literature on the French was particularly marked. The eighteenth century, which saw repeated conflict between France and England, was also the period when the […]