What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
HENRY KISSINGERIn 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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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History is the memory of States.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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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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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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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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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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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