in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
HENRY KISSINGERPower is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for 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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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