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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E16/NOS – 26/10/16