Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
HENRY KISSINGERWho controls the money controls the world.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
-
-
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 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 KISSINGER -
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
HENRY KISSINGER -
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
HENRY KISSINGER -
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
HENRY KISSINGER -
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
HENRY KISSINGER -
In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
HENRY KISSINGER -
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
HENRY KISSINGER -
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
HENRY KISSINGER