I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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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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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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