Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Henry KissingerShe had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown to me.
Henry KissingerThe 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. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
Henry KissingerIf Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America — and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six — is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.
Henry KissingerBlessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
Henry KissingerTag: leadership
History is the memory of States.
Henry KissingerTag: history
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
Henry KissingerTag: academia university
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
Henry KissingerTag: foreign-policy realpolitik
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
Henry KissingerTag: intelligence peace
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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