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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.

Henry Kissinger

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
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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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
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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Experience Important World
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
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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Goal Oppression

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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