It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
HENRY KISSINGER
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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History is the memory of States.
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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.
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