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Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
— George F. Kennan
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
— George F. Kennan
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.
— George F. Kennan
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
If there is a remedy, then what is the use of frustration? If there is no remedy, then what is the use of frustration?
— Santideva
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
— George F. Kennan
Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.
— George F. Kennan
I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.
— Karen Russell
The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
— George F. Kennan
Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
— Max Lucado
Like basketball, fashion is hard work.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.
— George F. Kennan
You want a little talent on that?
— Chet Atkins
Come touch,...but you'll a price
— Kresley Cole
A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man;
— Herman Melville
The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.
— Chris Gethard
A Gresham's Law: the fakes would undermine the value of the real.
— Philip K. Dick
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
— George F. Kennan
The Red Army ... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
— George F. Kennan
I close my eyes, and think of water.
— James Wright
One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
— George F. Kennan