I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. Henry A. Kissinger More Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger More Quotes From Henry A. Kissinger If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere Henry A. Kissinger baseballsuccessinspiring A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. Henry A. Kissinger deserve-betterleadershipnames NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order. Henry A. Kissinger creativeorderworld The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation. Henry A. Kissinger governmentkeysdecision It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry A. Kissinger responsibilityleadershipexperts For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be. Henry A. Kissinger outcomesguaranteeslaw To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary. Henry A. Kissinger biblicalfateerrors Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry A. Kissinger aphrodisiacdefinitionspower Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth? Henry A. Kissinger populationgrowthpeople Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry A. Kissinger ninety-ninepoliticalgiving Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed. Henry A. Kissinger wisdomhomereality The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power. Henry A. Kissinger conspiracy-theorydeterminationworld The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order. Henry A. Kissinger rightsmenorder University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry A. Kissinger powerfuleducationwitty Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. Henry A. Kissinger careersyearsthinking The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible. Henry A. Kissinger dignitydemandwant You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. Henry A. Kissinger egypteasterwar I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics. Henry A. Kissinger americayearsfall Does anyone have any questions for my answers? Henry A. Kissinger traininganswersdoe You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone. Henry A. Kissinger strongwiseorder
