51 Most Powerful Quotes from Henry A. Kissinger
亨利·基辛格 （Henry A. Kissinger） 的 51 句最有力的名言
Henry Kissinger was Born on May 27, 1923, in Fürth, Germany. His family was german Jews. In 1938, at the age of 15, while the Nazis were tightening their grip on power, the Kissinger family immigrated to New York. Landing in the United States without any fortune and money and being completely poor, the young Kissinger went to work in order to make ends meet for his family.
亨利·基辛格于1923年5月27日出生于德国菲尔特。他的家人是德国犹太人。1938 年，15 岁的基辛格一家在纳粹收紧对权力的控制时移民到纽约。年轻的基辛格来到美国，没有任何财富和金钱，而且一贫如洗，为了养家糊口，他去打工了。
Kissinger went on to learn English at night at the George Washington High School. In 1943, he became a U.S. citizen. He pursued his further studies at Harvard in political science in 1950; and obtained his Master in 1951 and PhD in 1954 at Harvard University. After his studies, he became an instructor for government and foreign policy studies and was promoted as director of Defense Studies program. He was an acute observer of the political landscape with an eye and understanding for strategic policy.
基辛格晚上在乔治华盛顿高中学习英语。1943年，他成为美国公民。他于1950年在哈佛大学继续深造政治学;1951年获哈佛大学硕士，1954年获博士学位。毕业后，他成为政府和外交政策研究的讲师，并被提升为国防研究项目主任。他是政治格局的敏锐观察者，对战略政策有着敏锐的洞察力和理解力。
亨利·基辛格的生平
Henry Kissinger went on to play some important roles in the political landscape of the U.S: He became an advisor for the Department of State, and in 1968 he became the National Security Advisor of Richard Nixon, from 1969 to 1977. Furthermore, he was elected as Secretary of State under Nixon and Gerald Ford.
亨利·基辛格继续在美国政治格局中扮演一些重要角色：他成为国务院的顾问，并于 1968 年成为理查德·尼克松的国家安全顾问，从 1969 年到 1977 年。此外，他还被选为尼克松和杰拉尔德·福特的国务卿。
Kissinger’s policies in the Vietnam War, although he landed a cease-fire, the U.S. military Coup in Chile and his support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh War, despite the genocide, and his role in the secret bombing of Cambodia, made him quite a controversial figure.
基辛格在越南战争中的政策，尽管他达成了停火，美国在智利的军事政变以及他在孟加拉国战争期间对巴基斯坦的支持，尽管种族灭绝，以及他在秘密轰炸柬埔寨中的作用，使他成为一个颇具争议的人物。
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace together with Le Duc Tho, who refused to accept the honour. Many critics raised their voice at Kissinger’s nomination. For some he’s considered a war criminal, while for others he’s regarded as one of the best Secretary of State in the history of the United States.
他与拒绝接受诺贝尔和平奖的黎德寿一起被授予诺贝尔和平奖。许多批评者对基辛格的提名发出了声音。对一些人来说，他被认为是战犯，而对另一些人来说，他被认为是美国历史上最好的国务卿之一。
Since his retirement from active political life, Henry Kissinger has founded the consultancy firm Kissinger Associates specializing in international relations and he has written extensively about politics and the New World Order.
自从从活跃的政治生活中退休后，亨利·基辛格创立了专门从事国际关系的咨询公司基辛格联合公司，他撰写了大量关于政治和新世界秩序的文章。
1>Even a paranoid can have enemies.
即使是偏执狂也会有敌人。
2>If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
如果你的销售额有80%来自你所有商品的20%，那就带着这20%就行了。
3>In crises the most daring course is often safest.
在危机中，最大胆的做法往往是最安全的。
4>If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
如果你不知道你要去哪里，每条路都会让你无处可去。
5>If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
如果它最终会出来，最好立即出来。
6>It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
毕竟，操作熟悉的是专家的责任，而领导者的责任是超越它。
7>If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
如果我被俘虏了，我不想谈判——如果我要求被囚禁谈判，他们应该认为这是胁迫的表现。
8>The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
成为名人的好处是，如果你让人们感到厌烦，他们会认为这是他们的错。
9>I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
我不明白为什么我们需要袖手旁观，看着一个国家因为人民的不负责任而走向共产主义。这些问题对智利选民来说太重要了，不能让智利选民自己决定。
10>I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
我在这本书中坦率地介绍了自己。我在850页讲述了我的第一个错误。
11>It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
这是一场希腊悲剧。尼克松正在实现他自己的本性。一旦开始，它就无法以其他方式结束。
12>For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
对于其他国家来说，乌托邦是永远无法恢复的幸福过去;对于美国人来说，这简直是遥不可及。
13>No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
任何外交政策——无论多么巧妙——如果诞生于少数人的头脑中，并存在于任何人的心中，就没有任何成功的机会。
14>Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
每一次成功都只是为一个更困难的问题买了一张入场券。
15>Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
外交：制约权力的艺术。
16>Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
那些*能够直视命运而不退缩，但也不试图扮演上帝的人是有福的。
17>High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
高级职位教授的是决策，而不是实质。它消耗智力资本;它不会创建它。大多数高级官员在离任时都带着他们上任时的看法和见解;他们学习如何做决定，但不知道要做什么决定。
18>Power is the great aphrodisiac.
权力是伟大的春药。
19>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.
超级大国通常表现得像两个全副武装的盲人，在房间里摸索，每个人都相信自己处于对方的致命危险之中，他认为对方拥有完美的视力。
20>The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
我们立即做非法的。违宪需要更长的时间。
21>The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
理查德·尼克松的本质是孤独。
22>The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
常规军队如果不赢，就输了。如果他不输，游击队就赢了。
23>The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
美国人的诱惑是相信外交政策是精神病学的一个分支。
24>The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
六七十年代的美国外交政策创伤是由于在不合适的条件下应用有效的原则造成的。
25>Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
百分之九十的政客给另外百分之十的人一个坏名声。
26>The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
我离开办公室的时间越长，我对自己就越无懈可击。
27>Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
*不对进行民意调查负责，而是对他们行为的后果负责。
28>People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
人们普遍感到惊讶的是，我会对任何需要我停止说话三个小时的形式感兴趣。
29>No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.
没有人会赢得两性之战;与敌人的兄弟情谊太多了。
30>Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
艺术是人对劳动的喜悦的表达。
31>No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
任何国家都不可能在每时每刻在全球每个地方同时采取明智的行动。
32>Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
历史上高度标记的大多数外交政策，无论在哪个国家，都是由受到专家反对的*发起的。
33>Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
节制只在那些被认为有其他选择的人身上才是一种美德。
34>Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
领导者必须援引伟大远见的炼金术。
35>The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
没有替代品可以使头脑清醒。
36>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.
越南战争要求我们强调国家利益，而不是抽象的原则。尼克松总统和我试图做的事情是不自然的。这就是我们没有成功的原因。
37>While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
虽然我们永远不应该放弃我们的原则，但我们也必须意识到，除非我们生存下来，否则我们无法坚持我们的原则。
38>Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
无论最终必须发生什么，都应该立即发生。
39>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.
我们不能总是保证我们朋友的未来;如果我们记住我们的朋友是谁，我们就有更好的机会确保我们的未来。
40>We are all the President’s men.
我们都是总统的手下。
41>University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
大学政治之所以恶毒，正是因为赌注太小了。
42>Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
任何需要披露的事实都应该立即或尽快公布，否则出血不会结束。
43>There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
下周不会有危机。我的日程安排已经满了。
44>You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
没有埃及，你就无法在中东发动战争，没有叙利亚，你就无法实现和平。
45>The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
领导者的任务是让他的人民从他们现在的地方到他们没有去过的地方。
46>The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
政治家的职责是弥合他的国家经验与他的愿景之间的差距。
47>The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
以色列的安全是所有自由人民的道义责任。
48>Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.
接受关于你自己的一切——我的意思是一切，你就是你，这就是开始和结束——没有道歉，没有遗憾。
49>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.
一个将自己的角色局限于人民经验的领导者注定要停滞不前;一个超越其人民经验的领导者冒着不被理解的风险。
50>A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
一个领导者不配得到这个名字，除非他偶尔愿意独自一人。
51>To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
要绝对确定某事，一个人必须对它一无所知。
#Henry Alfred Kissinger#
