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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
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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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Fear Insecurity Nation Represent
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
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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Decision Seek Victory
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
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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Deep Philosophy True
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
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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Class History Oneself
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World

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