Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
HENRY KISSINGERIf you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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 goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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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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