All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu
In the diplomatic service, opportunities sooner or later force most people to step forward on their own and show what they are and what they can do.
Ivo Andric
The order that is emerging today will have to be built by statesmen who belong to different cultures.
Henry Kissinger
It is much more important to eliminate the pretensions of others than to insist on our own, if we ask for little, we will proportionally get a lot.
Klemens von Metternich
Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.
Charles De Gaulle
A statesman needs a telescope, not glasses.
Horace Walpole
The nuclear era turned strategy into deterrence, and deterrence into mere philosophizing.
Henry Kissinger
An international order that is not considered fair sooner or later will be challenged.
Henry Kissinger
In a world composed of several countries of approximately the same strength, there is a need for the order to be based on some kind of balance.
Henry Kissinger
In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Miyamoto Musashi
The author: Maja Jovanov
The author: Aleksandar Stanković
