Cold war Quote by Philip Short

“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

“Perhaps we didn't win anyway. (the Cold War) Perhaps they just lost. Or perhaps, without the bonds of ideological conflict to restrain us any…

— John le Carré

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in…

— Robert D. Kaplan

I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,…

— Jules Feiffer

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

— Howard Zinn

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we…

— Margaret Thatcher

“...'the softest, sweetest part of the Cold War, the only truly interesting part, the war of ideas.”

— Ian McEwan

“War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.”

— Alan DeNiro

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

The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean…

— Graham T. Allison

“A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes…

— Anonymous

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold…

— Barack Obama