History knows no resting places and no plateaus
HENRY KISSINGERIt’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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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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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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