A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
HENRY KISSINGERA turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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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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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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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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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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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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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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