Henry A. Kissinger
16 quotes
Biography
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."
"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts."
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."