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 KISSINGERPoor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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Who controls the money controls the world.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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