The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
HENRY KISSINGERThe goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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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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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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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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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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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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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