Jason

“I am for such a League provided we don’t expect too much from it…. I am not willing to play the part which even Aesop held up to derision when he wrote of how the wolves and the sheep agreed to disarm, and how the sheep as a guarantee of good faith sent away the watchdogs, and were then forthwith eaten by the wolves.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“The businessmen who helped Hitler into power naïvely believed that they were only supporting a dictator, and one of their own making, who would naturally rule to the advantage of their own class and the disadvantage of all others.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“They build their monuments as if their intent was never to finish them,” the Spanish academic Polo de Ondegardo marveled in 1571.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

“Things which ought to be taken for granted lose their force when they emerge in the form of arbitrary pronouncements….”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy