342 Quotes by Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

In recent decades, Europe has retreated to the conduct of soft power. But besieged as it is on almost all frontiers by upheavals and migration, Europe, including Britain, can avoid turning into a victim of circumstance only by assuming a more active role.

And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.