History is the memory of States.
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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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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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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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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.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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