Henry Kissinger
b. 1923
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/gcsjx97v · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
tiny.ag/aolzpl1x · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
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. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
tiny.ag/1ywkwx4s · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/r1fscizb · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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