In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
HENRY KISSINGER
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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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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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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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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