Detente Quotes
10 quotes by 8 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
— Robert Dallek
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No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
— Stephen Kinzer
Who Wrote These Detente Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 10 Detente Quotes as follows: