A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
HENRY KISSINGERBehind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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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 Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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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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We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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