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George Kennan

Anyone who has ever studied th...

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you

George Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

The very concept of history im...

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 Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

The best an American can look ...

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

George Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

Bearing all this in mind, we s...

Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it.

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George Kennan

Above all, it behooves us to r...

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 Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

Forms of government are forged...

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 Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

Perfect discipline requires re...

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

George Kennan 52 quotes
George Kennan

The Russian leaders are keen j...

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

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George Kennan

It is clear that the main elem...

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

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George Kennan

The jealous and intolerant eye...

The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.

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George Kennan

There is more respect to be wo...

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.

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George Kennan

We should cease to talk about ...

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

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George Kennan

The truth is sometimes a poor ...

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas Ђ' complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

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George Kennan

Were the Soviet Union to sink ...

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.

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George Kennan

Instruments of coercion, once ...

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

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George Kennan

It is an undeniable privilege ...

It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.

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George Kennan

A doctrine is something that p...

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

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George Kennan

Whenever you have a possibilit...

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.

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George Kennan

We are, if territory and popul...

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether 'bigness' in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

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George Kennan

There will be no room, here, f...

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

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