A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
HENRY KISSINGERIt’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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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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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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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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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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History is the memory of States.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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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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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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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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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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