• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.

Henry Kissinger

Related Topics

ForceRule

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Henry Kissinger Quotes

• 

  Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  NationRuleTrust
• 

  It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  DeepPhilosophyTrue
• 

  The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ArtFightWar
• 

  History is the memory of States.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  HistoryMemories
• 

  The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  AbsenceMindset
• 

  It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  LearningNationPast
• 

  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
  KnowledgeLifeLiveLostPhilosophyWisdom
• 

  Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  DifficultProblemSuccess
• 

  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.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ArtAvoidRevenge
• 

  The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  GoalOppression
• 

  If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  PathRoadSuccessYourself
• 

  It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)

  HENRY KISSINGER
  LoseWar
• 

  Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

  HENRY KISSINGER
  CommitmentDogExpectationGrowthLifePolitics
• 

  Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  IntellectualPolitics
• 

  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 KISSINGER
  FearInsecurityNationRepresent
• 

  If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  HistoryJusticePeaceTeaching