Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
HENRY KISSINGER
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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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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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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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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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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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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
HENRY KISSINGER