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“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”

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“International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.”

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“Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been.”

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“Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.”

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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

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“It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering”

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“The study of the powers that shape, maintain and alter the state is the basis of all political insight and leads to the understanding that the law of power governs the world of states just as the law of gravity governs the physical world.”

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“We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.”

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