Henry Kissinger on politics
Henry Kissinger81 quotes“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger History is the memory of States.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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