Aligned Quote by Martin Jacques

What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.

— Harold L. Ickes

The Cold War was obviously driven by a very intense ideological struggle that was very clearly defined.

— Fiona Hill

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for…

— Hjalmar Branting

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of any society…

— William Blum

The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold…

— Robert Conquest

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

— Richard N. Haass

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

— Noam Chomsky

They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and…

— Stephen Kinzer

“The thing that made Communism seem so plausible to me was my own lack of logic which failed to distinguish between the reality of…

— Thomas Merton