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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