A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
HENRY KISSINGERThe Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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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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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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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