Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Psychology, Understanding

• Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hero, Support, Technique

• Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, People, Chinese

• The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Limits, Realizing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Decision, Majority, Realism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ships, Rudders, Security

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