Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
HENRY KISSINGERA more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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History is the memory of States.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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