Detente Quotes

10 quotes by 8 authors

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it… — Gaston Bachelard
Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table. — Leonid Brezhnev
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generationmy generationknows from four very bitter experiences.… — Gerald R. Ford
In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements,… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. — Golda Meir
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. — Robert Dallek
No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran. — Stephen Kinzer

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