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Letter "G" » George F. Kennan Quotes
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«Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more.»
«The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.»
«We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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concepts, democratization, far-off, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers, idealistic, not far, objectives, raising, slogans, unreal, vague
«The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.»
«The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.»
«[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.»
«Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.»
«Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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affirmations, continuity, defiant, essentiality, honoring, threatened, unreasoning
«I shall always remember you-slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion-pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.»
Author: George F. Kennan
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December, frosty, hot water, pumping, shouting, sleeping car, slyly, touchingly
«The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overtook the Soviet Union,»
Author: George F. Kennan
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