Henry Kissinger Quotes

Most popular Henry Kissinger Quotes

Power is the great aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
— Henry Kissinger in The New York Times

aphrodisiac power

Even a paranoid can have enemies. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
— Henry Kissinger

enemies

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
— Henry Kissinger

power

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
— Henry Kissinger in Time

alternatives

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger quote.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
— Henry Kissinger

crisis

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
— Henry Kissinger Years of Renewal

decision-making success

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger quote.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
— Henry Kissinger

academia

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

committees

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
— Henry Kissinger

socialism

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
— Henry Kissinger

relationships marriage men and women

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
— Henry Kissinger

fame

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.  There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy. - Henry Kissinger quote.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.  There is just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
— Henry Kissinger

men and women

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes.  It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. - Henry Kissinger quote.
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes.  It teaches by analogy, not by maxims.
— Henry Kissinger White Hour Years

history

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.
— Henry Kissinger

war morals

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. - Henry Kissinger quote.
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.
— Henry Kissinger

responsibility

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. - Henry Kissinger quote.
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.
— Henry Kissinger The Observer

nuclear weapons cold war

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. - Henry Kissinger quote.
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.
— Henry Kissinger

government

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
— Henry Kissinger

men and women

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
— Henry Kissinger

celebrity