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"Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable"
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"George Bernard Shaw: “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"It's a pity both sides can't lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)"
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger