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Misattributed quotes — Henry Kissinger

1923–2023 United States

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The reason that university politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small.

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Military men are "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

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Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?

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Accept everything about yourself — I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end — no apologies, no regrets.

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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

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Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every 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 the world government.

Misattributed This is widely reported on many sites as coming from the Bilderberg Conference (1991)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Kissinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.