Henry Kissinger Quotes
Most popular Henry Kissinger Quotes
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims.
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
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.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
I have seen it happen more often than not in government that when one asks for a choice, one is always given three: two absurd ones and the preferred one. And the experienced bureaucrat can usually tell the preferred one because it is almost always the one typed in the middle.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.