"Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires……" — George F. Kennan
"Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline."
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George F. Kennan
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33 Quotes by George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan has 33 quotes on this site.
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the…
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This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great…
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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it…
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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
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Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not…
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It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his…
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Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a…
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The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors…
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It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of…
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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of…
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War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
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A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is…
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
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— Roseanne Barr
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
— Bernard Baruch
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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