Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
HENRY KISSINGERPoliticians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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