"The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon……" — George F. Kennan
"The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself."
—
George F. Kennan
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the…
-
This is a big world. Billions - rapidly increasing billions - of people live outside our borders. Obviously, a great…
-
It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it…
-
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment…
-
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not…
-
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his…
-
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a…
-
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors…
-
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of…
-
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of…
-
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
-
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is…
See all 33 quotes by George F. Kennan »
More Bomb Quotes
This quote is filed under Bomb Quotes,
one of 563 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
— William Blum
-
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
— Simon Le Bon
-
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
-
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
-
We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
-
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
— Abdallah II
-
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive…
— James Buchan
-
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
-
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the…
— Barbara Bush
-
One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
-
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people…
— Rosanne Cash
See all 563 Bomb Quotes »