Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
HENRY KISSINGERPolicy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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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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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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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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