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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

Henry Kissinger

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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
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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Moral Right Risk Survive
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself
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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Experience Important World
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
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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Knowledge Life Live Lost Philosophy Wisdom
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself

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