Quote

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry A. Kissinger
Society
Proportions
History
Tended
Breed
Privileged
Irony
Classless
Communism
Ironies
Proportion
Advertised
Class
Feudal

More quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Image
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Let us fashion together a new world order.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
Henry A. Kissinger