Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (헨리 앨프리드 키신저), May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023.
An American diplomat and political scientist.
An advocate of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in shaping U.S. foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this time, he spearheaded the Détente policy, which led to a significant easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, and played a crucial role in the 1972 talks with Premier Zhou Enlai, which coincided with China's "opening up" and the formation of a new anti-Soviet, Sino-American alliance with a new strategic perspective. He ended the Vietnam War, and his efforts earned him the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
His foreign policy record made him an enemy of both anti-war activists and anti-communists, and the controversy surrounding him has never subsided since his years of service to the national government. Nevertheless, he was widely considered one of the most important strategic thinkers of the late 20th century. He died of natural causes on November 29, 2023.
○ If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
○ Every success is just a ticket to a tougher problem.
○ Power is a tremendous aphrodisiac.
○ Art is the expression of man's joy in labor.
○ The absence of alternatives clears the mind wonderfully.
○ To be absolutely certain about something, you must either know everything or nothing about it.
○ Conventional armies win by fighting, guerrillas win by not losing.
○ The task of leadership is to get people from where they are to where they have never been.
○ We must never give up on principle, but we must also realize that without survival, there can be no principles to uphold.
○ Most high officials retire with the same insights and perceptions they had when they entered office. They learn how to make decisions, but not what decisions to make.
○ Diplomacy is the art of restraining power.
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