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Henry Kissinger1923–2023

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger on power

The White House Years (1979)

Power War & Peace

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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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