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Of the many quotes you'll find on the Internet about what diplomacy means, this is one of my favourites.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
Whether the British wartime leader Winston Churchill said it or not is by the by because for me it encapsulates what diplomacy is.
Persuasion, negotiation, influencing, all the while letting the other person have your way, as another statesman put it.
So Farah, do you have a favourite diplomacy quote?
I think the closest I would come to my favourite diplomacy quote is something my former lecturer and tutor at Keele University wrote in her book.
Dr.
Lorna Lloyd wrote that the essence of diplomacy is communication.
Whether you agree or disagree, you still communicate.
And if we stop communicating, if he stopped engaging, then it's a failure of diplomacy.
So I think I would add to that that the basic essence of diplomacy is indeed communicating.
Communicating.
Would you agree with that?
Maryam, what is your favorite quote?