Henry Kissinger on politics
Henry Kissinger81 quotes“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”
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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.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
Henry KissingerHenry Kissinger Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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.
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