In short, the end justifies the means.
HENRY KISSINGERIt’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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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.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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