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.
HENRY KISSINGERA 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.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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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 diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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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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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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