Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

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's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

Crises there will continue to be ... Threats of new kinds will always appear.

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.

Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

All marriages, all relationships have huge ups and downs.

I know nobody believes in peace anymore, but what else is there to work toward? As the years have gone by, peace seems like more and more of an impossibility.

In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that is a great leveller.

There are no second chances in the volatile Middle East.

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

To ride two horses at the same time is difficult.

I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.