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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Enemy Win
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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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Perspective Problem Thinking
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics

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