Realpolitik Quotes

#1. The United States forgot - if it ever knew - the supreme virtue of an enlightened realpolitik, which is to keep one's powder dry, intervene militarily as a last resort (rather than a first), and maintain industrial and fiscal strength at home.

Mike Lofgren

#2. [T]hey don't care about realpolitik or the big picture. They only care about monkey-wrenching and whistle blowing.

Peter Watts

#3. How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat.

John Taylor Gatto

#4. Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

Peter Singer

#5. Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.

Henry Kissinger

#6. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.

Alan W. Watts

#7. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.

Martin Schulz

#8. 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.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.

Dave Ramsey

#11. 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.

Egon Bahr

#12. America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

Henry Kissinger

#13. If you want it, become it.

Mastin Kipp

#14. One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren't all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Mark Zuckerberg

#15. We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

Carl Jung

#16. I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Ben Jonson

#17. for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the strong.

Kautilya

#18. International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power

Hans J. Morgenthau

#19. She wasn't used to kisses that were simultaneously startling and wonderful, casual and memorable. Her world was so much smaller than that.

Sarah Cross

#20. Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one of many and where my skills are equally as important and valuable.

Lissie