Best Quotes by Henry Kissinger - Top Famous Quotes

Best Quotes by Henry Kissinger, Top Famous Henry Kissinger Quotes

Henry Kissinger

Nationality: American
Profession: Actor, Teacher, Author
From: May 27, 1923 To ,
-1923 Years

AboutHenry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger was born on 27^th of May 1923 in Furth, Bavaria, Germany. His father name was Louis Kissinger and his mother name was Paula Stern Kissinger. He has two children with his former wife, Ann Fleischer, whom he divorced in 1964. Then he married philanthropist Nancy Maginnes in 1974.

Kissinger enrolled at New York's George Washington High School, where he learned English with remarkable speed and excelled in all of his classes. Kissinger graduated from high school in 1940 and continued on to the City College of New York, where he studied to become an accountant. In 1947 he returned to the United States and then he was admitted to Harvard University to complete his undergraduate coursework. In 1950 Kissinger's senior thesis completed. After completing his graduation summa cum laude in 1950, Kissinger decided to remain at Harvard to pursue a Ph.D. in the Department of Government. In 1954 he received his doctorate degree; Kissinger accepted an offer to stay at Harvard as a member of the faculty in the Department of Government.

Then in 1969 he left Harvard and served as a national security adviser from 199-75 and the he served as secretary of state from 1973-77. Henry Kissinger stands out as the dominant American statesman and foreign policymaker of the late 20th century. He has received many awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1965-1966), the American Institute for Public Service Award (1973), the International Platform Association Theodore Roosevelt Award (1973) and the Hope Award for International Understanding (1973).

He is also an actor his most famous movies are The Trials of Henry Kissinger and Last Days in Vietnam. He is also a great author he wrote many quotes o various topics. One of his best quotes is given below,

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

He is now 95 years old and alive. May God give him a great success in every field of life.

Best Quotes by Henry Kissinger, Top Famous Henry Kissinger Quotes

Henry Kissinger

AboutHenry Kissinger

Best Quotes Of Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

"In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality."

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small.

"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."

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

"We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he... Read More "

Power without legitimacy tempt tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing.

"It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions."

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

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

History is the memory of States.

"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... Read More "

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

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

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

"To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the... Read More "

"Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable."

"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. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty,... Read More "

"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... Read More "

…Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.

"But Japan drew from the challenge the opposite conclusion as China: it threw open its doors to foreign technology and overhauled its institutions in an attempt to replicate the Western powers’ rise."

"What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military."

"For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government."

"A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war."

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

"The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat."

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

"The American Senate remained focused on domestic priorities and thwarted all expansionist projects. It kept the army small (25,000 men) and the navy weak. Until 1890, the American army ranked fourteenth in the world, after Bulgaria’s, and the... Read More "

"We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity."

History teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.

"Order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace."

Universitypolitics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

"From all the great and indispensable achievements the Internet has brought to our era, its emphasis is on the actual more than the contingent, on the factual rather than the conceptual, on values shaped by consensus rather than by introspection.... Read More "

"Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy."

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."