Henry Kissinger Quotes

• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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  If you control the food supply, you control the people.

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• I’d do anything for caviar and probably did.

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• Any people who have been persecuted for 2,000 years must be doing something wrong.

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• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think that it’s their fault.

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• The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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• There can’t be any crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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• History is a tale of efforts that failed…aspirations that weren’t realized, or wishes that were fulfilled and then turned out to be different from what one expected.

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• Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

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• We are all the President’s men, and we must behave accordingly.

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• We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.

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• It is not often that nations learn from the past—even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

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• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

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• Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

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• People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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• You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

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• While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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Henry Kissinger (64)

Birth:	27th May, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Political Scientist, Statesman

About

Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany. He is an American diplomat, statesman and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating an unsuccessful ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. He received his BA(political science), MA, and PhD(International Relations) degrees from Harvard University in 1950, 1952, and 1954. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Peace, Legitimacy, and the Equilibrium". He has written several books include: A World Restored, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy(Nominations: National Book Award for Nonfiction), American Foreign Policy, White House years(memoir), Years of Upheaval(memoir), Diplomacy, Years of Renewal(memoir), Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, Ending the Vietnam War, and On China.

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