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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

Henry Kissinger

It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
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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Art Avoid Revenge
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
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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Class History Oneself
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Man Talk Time
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World

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