For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
With its declining population, with people moving out of the Far East, with an enormously powerful China in the east, I think… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
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