History knows no resting places and no plateaus
HENRY KISSINGER
HENRY KISSINGER
Henry Kissinger on history
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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger It has the added advantage of being true.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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