A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
HENRY KISSINGERMilitary men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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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 has the added advantage of being true.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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History is the memory of States.
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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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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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