The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
HENRY KISSINGERHistory is the memory of States.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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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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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