The issue has two dimensions. One is the legal dimension and the other one is the issue at the realpolitik. [In the]… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Human relations tend to be more difficult when you're dealing with someone who weighs 30 kilograms more than you do. That's when… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
There is always an element of realpolitik that has to be present in the conduct of any nation's national security affairs. At… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands,… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In fact in politics, sometimes the thing that will never happen actually starts to happen. And there have to be people who… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“for in the absence of a magistrate (dandadharabhave), the strong will swallow the weak; but under his protection, the weak resist the… — Kautilya Copy Share Image
“International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and… — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image