• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Related Topics

LoseWar

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

• 

  For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ExpectationNationRespect
• 

  The issues are too important to be left for the voters.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ImportantIssueVote
• 

  The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ForceLanguageUnderstand
• 

  Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ArgumentBeginningEndWar
• 

  in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ChoiceImportantReputationWorth
• 

  Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  OppressionRule
• 

  Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  ActionDifference
• 

  In short, the end justifies the means.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  EndJustice
• 

  Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  FreedomPeaceRuleSecure
• 

  Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  AppearanceBadPolitics
• 

  The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  LegalPoliticsTime
• 

  Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  AvoidanceDevelopmentDirectionThinkingVictory
• 

  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
• 

  America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

  HENRY KISSINGER
  EnemyFriendship
• 

  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
  GrowthIssueLiveStrongTimeWeaknessWonderful
• 

  Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

  HENRY KISSINGER
  GoalNationReality