If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
HENRY KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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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It has the added advantage of being true.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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