Quotes from Henry Kissinger

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The essence of this man -- Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.

The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

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

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.

We are all the President's men.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

George Bernard Shaw: "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents...' In short, the end justifies the means.