#on

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#blessed #horizon #just #nations #never

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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#born #carried #chance #few #foreign

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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#confines #experience #himself #his #leader

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#after #expert #familiar #leader #operate

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#great #invoke #leaders #must #vision

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer. ↗

— Allen Klein

#longer #often #people #research #shown

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#could #end #fulfilling #greek #his

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#american foreign policy #applying #caused #conditions #foreign

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#believe #foreign #foreign policy #policy #psychiatry

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#conventional #does #guerrilla #lose #loses