Henry Kissinger Quotes

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 Kissinger

Quotes to Explore

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Adam Gopnik
- Life
- Quality
- Values
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

Nate Silver
- Event
- Foreign Policy
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

Sam Harris
- People
- Doubt
- Values
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

Hamza Yusuf
- War
- Child
- Values
If you will trust me with your vote, you can count on me to take those values to Washington.

Vance McAllister
- Trust
- Values
- Vote
I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

H. P. Lovecraft
- Think
- Beautiful
- Realism