Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGERWhen statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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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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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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History is the memory of States.
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