Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
HENRY KISSINGERLater I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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