Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
HENRY KISSINGER
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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A 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.
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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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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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