Cold Quote by Golda Meir

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…

— Leonid Brezhnev

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the…

— E. Howard Hunt

“The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a benevolent understanding…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after…

— Fidel Castro

The cold war provided the perfect excuse for Western governments to plunder and exploit the Third World in the name of freedom; to rig…

— John le Carre

The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with the Soviets,…

— Nigel Gibson

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at…

— Matthew Rhys

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

— Bill Vaughan

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have…

— Mario Bunge