Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGERWhat distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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