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13 Copy quote. The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. George F. Kennan. Loss, Self, Judging. 23 Copy quote. The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader.
- “The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.”
- “Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.
- “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.
- “It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.”
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Aug 11, 2023 · Yes, Robert Oppenheimer did say that he read Thucydides "with great profit" and that he found his work to be "profoundly disturbing." The quote comes from a 1954 interview with Oppenheimer by the ...
On November 20, 1958, J. Robert Oppenheimer (right), Director (1947–66) of the Institute for Advanced Study, and George F. Kennan (center), then Professor in the School of Historical Studies and former Ambassador to Russia, conferred with nine Soviet educators who were on a five-week stay in the United States. At left is Aleksei I. Markushevich, editor of the Russian pedagogical encyclopedia ...
Book by George F. Kennan, p. 143, 1993. 9 Copy quote Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones.
Kennan, George F.. "George F. Kennan: "It is only the great sinners who become the great saints"". In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing, edited by Richard Polenberg, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 139-148.
Jun 23, 1994 · In Defense of Oppenheimer. George F. Kennan. June 23, 1994 issue. The excellent review in these pages by Thomas Powers of the book entitled Special Tasks by Pavel Sudoplatov and his son gives so thorough and searching an appraisal of the book as a whole that there is hardly any need for me or anyone else to attempt to add anything to what he ...
