History knows no resting places and no plateaus
HENRY KISSINGERHistory is the memory of States.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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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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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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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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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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 country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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