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George F Kennan Quotes

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives Picture Quote #1
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live Picture Quote #1
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes Picture Quote #1
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live Picture Quote #1
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here Picture Quote #1
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results Picture Quote #1
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Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy Picture Quote #1
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning Picture Quote #1
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian Picture Quote #1
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one’s secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal Picture Quote #1
Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics Picture Quote #1
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself Picture Quote #1
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A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all Picture Quote #1
A guest of one’s time and not a member of its household Picture Quote #1
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications,... is simply not a possibility in the modern age Picture Quote #1
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse Picture Quote #1
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves Picture Quote #1
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities Picture Quote #1
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Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline Picture Quote #1
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live Picture Quote #1
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy Picture Quote #1
A guest of one’s time and not a member of the household Picture Quote #1
Heroism is endurance for one moment more Picture Quote #1
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters Picture Quote #1
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One sometimes feels a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household Picture Quote #1
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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives  (George F Kennan Quotes) A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.  (George F Kennan Quotes) The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes  (George F Kennan Quotes) We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live  (George F Kennan Quotes) This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great number of them, being much poorer than they think most of us are, look enviously over those borders and would like, if they could, to come here  (George F Kennan Quotes) Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results  (George F Kennan Quotes) Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy  (George F Kennan Quotes) The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning  (George F Kennan Quotes) The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian  (George F Kennan Quotes) Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one’s secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal  (George F Kennan Quotes) Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics  (George F Kennan Quotes) The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself  (George F Kennan Quotes) A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all  (George F Kennan Quotes) A guest of one’s time and not a member of its household  (George F Kennan Quotes) Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications,... is simply not a possibility in the modern age  (George F Kennan Quotes) The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse  (George F Kennan Quotes) Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves  (George F Kennan Quotes) Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities  (George F Kennan Quotes) Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline  (George F Kennan Quotes) A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live  (George F Kennan Quotes) War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy  (George F Kennan Quotes) A guest of one’s time and not a member of the household  (George F Kennan Quotes) Heroism is endurance for one moment more  (George F Kennan Quotes) Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters  (George F Kennan Quotes) One sometimes feels a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household  (George F Kennan Quotes)