Henry Kissinger Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
The genius of this system, and the reason it spread across the world, was that its provisions were procedural, not substantive.
Later I learned to improve my forecasting - if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon. In
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy.
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
In international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government.
The highest form of warfare Is to attack [the enemy's] Strategy itself; The next, To attack [his] Alliances. The next, To attack Armies;
Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.
Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
When the Chinese court deigned to send envoys abroad, they were not diplomats, but "Heavenly Envoys" from the Celestial Court.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918.
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.