"War is a highly overrated tool of foreign…" — George F. Kennan

"War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy."

33 Quotes by George F. Kennan

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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…
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…
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is…
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn…

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