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Top 380 Henry Kissinger Quotes (2025 Update)
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Henry Kissinger Quote: “Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “How to Achieve The New World Order.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “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.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point” – the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center of the board. Wei qi teaches the art of strategic encirclement.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “This is awful. Do it again.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don’t try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Let us fashion together a new world order.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other – it should function as a bridge between them.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Even a paranoid can have enemies.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Because information is so accessible and communication instantaneous, there is a diminution of focus on its significance, or even on the definition of what is significant. This dynamic may encourage policymakers to wait for an issue to arise rather than anticipate it, and to regard moments of decision as a series of isolated events rather than part of a historical continuum. When this happens, manipulation of information replaces reflection as the principal policy tool.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Power is the great aphrodisiac.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I’m against the concept of intervention when you don’t know its ultimate implications.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren’t all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.”
Henry Kissinger Quote: “Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.”
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