When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
HENRY KISSINGERSince Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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 illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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