The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
-
-
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
HENRY KISSINGER -
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
HENRY KISSINGER -
It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
HENRY KISSINGER -
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
HENRY KISSINGER -
History knows no resting places and no plateaus
HENRY KISSINGER -
It has the added advantage of being true.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
HENRY KISSINGER -
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
HENRY KISSINGER -
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGER -
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
HENRY KISSINGER -
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
HENRY 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 KISSINGER -
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
HENRY KISSINGER -
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
HENRY KISSINGER