Quotes by German/Germany authors (page 43)

"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power"

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Woman is at once apple and serpent"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"We are all the President's men"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Power is the great aphrodisiac"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Transcendence constitutes selfhood"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"To dwell is to garden"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman