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Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was a German-American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938.
United States Anti-communists Businesspeople Memoirists Nobel laureates Also known as: Henry A. Kissinger, Kissinger, Kissinger, Henry
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The accumulation of nuclear arms has to be constrained if mankind is not to destroy itself.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
The End of the Road (1982)
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
Sketchbook 1966-1971 (1971)
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.
Ever since the secret trip to China, my own relationship with Nixon had grown complicated.
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
The study of history offers no manual of instructions that can be applied automatically; history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.
Diplomacy (1994)
This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique.
If Putin uses the atomic bomb, Russia will be destroyed.
I've always acted alone. Americans like that immensely.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
If the President had his way, we’d have a nuclear war every week.
Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History (2014)
Any people [Jews] who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.
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