01UndatedNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
02UndatedMilitary men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
04UndatedPoliticians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearableHenry Kissinger / quote ↗
05UndatedThe bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
06UndatedIn every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
07UndatedThe task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
08UndatedBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play GodHenry Kissinger / quote ↗
09UndatedA leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
10UndatedA turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
11UndatedAmericans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
12UndatedAnd history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
13UndatedThe acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
14UndatedNo country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
18UndatedThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
20UndatedIntelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
21UndatedI do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
22UndatedThe superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision.Henry Kissinger / quote ↗
