Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGERWho controls the money controls the world.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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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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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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History is the memory of States.
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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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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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