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Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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History Nature Place
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectual Politics
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World
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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Perspective Problem Thinking
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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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
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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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
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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Strategy Writing
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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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Genius Security
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics

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