The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
HENRY KISSINGERThe 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.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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In short, the end justifies the means.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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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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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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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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History is the memory of States.
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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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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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