Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
HENRY KISSINGERThe issues are too important to be left for the voters.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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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 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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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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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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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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 illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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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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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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