342 Quotes by Henry Kissinger
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Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
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I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and security, one should try to avoid it.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
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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.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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