QUOTES by Henry Alfred Kissinger
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"For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,"
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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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"But Japan drew from the challenge the opposite conclusion as China: it threw open its doors to foreign technology and overhauled its institutions in an attempt to replicate the Western powers’ rise."
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"The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force."
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"United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed."
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"…Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative."
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"When the Chinese court deigned to send envoys abroad, they were not diplomats, but “Heavenly Envoys” from the Celestial Court."
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"Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology."
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"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy."
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"For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government."
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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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"Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy."
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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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"It's a pity both sides can't lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)"
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"Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance."
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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 the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power."
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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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"Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable"
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"The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint."
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"Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them."
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
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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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"Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing."
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"The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small"
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"Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial."
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"I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time."
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"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
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"In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality"
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"A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe."
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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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"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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"It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it."
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"A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security"
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
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"Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem"
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"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
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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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