Kevin Smiley

“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams”
― Susan Sontag, The Benefactor

“Rarely has a diplomatic document so missed its objective as the Treaty of Versailles. Too punitive for conciliation, too lenient to keep Germany from recovering, the Treaty of Versailles condemned the exhausted democracies to constant vigilance against an irreconcilable and revanchist Germany as well as a revolutionary Soviet Union.”
― Henry Kissinger

“Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

“in effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multistate system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.”
― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy