Henry Kissinger Quotes

We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

Henry Kissinger

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• When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Training
  • Opponents
  • Cater

• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Humans

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Clock
  • Opponents

• The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Future
  • Worse
  • Opponents

• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • May
  • Fundamentals
  • Opponents

• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  

  George Foreman
  • Littles
  • Opponents
  • Companion

• We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Prison
  • Opponents

• A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Book
  • Opponents
  • Imparts

• When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Fear
  • Countries

• If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Want
  • Opponents
  • Treats

• Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Fear
  • Progress
  • Opponents

• The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Reaction
  • Opponents
  • Energetic

• Owing to the spirit of the world and tepidity, if the Savior returned to earth today to announce His doctrine in person, He would find as many opponents as He did among the Jews.

  

  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Find
  • Opponents
  • Savior

• Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Goal

• The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Opponents
  • Regime
  • Lackeys

• Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Strong
  • Play
  • Chess

• If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Opponents
  • Disrespectful

• A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've been rowing for only three or four days. To avoid that fate, we prepared for all possibilities. If a meteor landed 10 feet off our stern, we would not blink. We Would be aware, yet impassive, to the outside world. Every ounce of energy would be funneled into the water, and not wasted by looking around, worrying about opponents, wondering about things that didn't concern our primary goal-to be the first across the finish line.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Wonder
  • Changes
  • Possibilities

• I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good

• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Distinction

• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Military War
  • Opponents
  • Psychological exhaustion