Quotes by : Miklós Bánffy

...if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and....

Propaganda, if too raucous, will always prove counterproductive. The damage arises because in peacetime....

A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended....

Since then many years have passed, and in those years I have often thought how strange are the ways of....

...for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly....

Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also....

The public can never know all the facts, ands public opinion is always swayed by passion, never by reason....

Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone.

Great nations, and even medium-sized ones, can always seek revision of frontiers by normal diplomatic....

Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...

With human beings the urge to make peace takes some time to germinate, while Homo Sapiens is always ready....