Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)

Quotes

• Power is the great aphrodisiac.

• Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

• A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

• History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

• Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

• No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.

• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

• The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

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

• No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

• No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

• Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

• Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

• Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.

• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

• If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.

• In crises the most daring course is often safest.