Quotes of George F. Kennan - somelinesforyou

“ The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ Heroism… is endurance for one moment more. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ Heroism… is endurance for one moment more. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ Heroism… is endurance for one moment more. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ Heroism… is endurance for one moment more. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ Heroism… is endurance for one moment more. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ 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. ”

- George F. Kennan
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