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Henry A Kissinger Inspirational Quotes (181)

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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