The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
HENRY KISSINGER
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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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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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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 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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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