The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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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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