In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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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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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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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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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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