The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
HENRY KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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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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The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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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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