Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
HENRY KISSINGERThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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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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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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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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