PIR Quotes № 4 (7), 2026. “Diplomacy must be divested of the crusading spirit…”

October 6, 2026

PIR Quotes

“Diplomacy must be divested of the crusading spirit…”

“Diplomacy must be divested of the crusading spirit. This is the first rule of diplomacy, which a nation can neglect only at the risk of war. … No readiness for compromise can be expected from a nation which conceives of its foreign policy as a crusade for political or religious purposes”, – Hans Morgenthau.

Eugène Delacroix,
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople. 1840.

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