Cold War Quotes - Page 11

• I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Gun, Thinking

  "I Won't Be a Dictator". Interview with Ruth Lloyd, January 1959.

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• Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

  Thomas S. Power

  War, Winning, Two

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• The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  Omar Bongo

  Block, War, Two

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• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  War, Long, Principles

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• It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Children, War

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.374, Best Books on

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• Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.

  Konstantin Chernenko

  War, Nuclear, Pushing

  Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (1984). “Speeches and Writings”, Pergamon

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• I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union - the Russian leaders behaved carefully and predictably. They didn't engage in nuclear saber rattling. They were able to work with us and align their interests where possible.

  Ashton Carter

  War, Leader, Nuclear

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

  Nelson DeMille

  War, Book, Army

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

  Robert Englund

  War, Thinking, Vampire

  Source: www.ramascreen.com

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• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I came into politics because of a real childhood concern about the Cold War. So to me the importance of the nuclear deterrent is actually really ingrained in me.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Real, War, Childhood

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Russia and China have become two great allies. They'd never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together cannot be defeated: militarily, economically or morally.

  Andre Vltchek

  War, Two, Russia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stress, War, Thinking

  Interview With Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. April 6, 2016.

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• We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which the dissident in exile is seen as a bold figure, and those who choose to work with restrictions on their freedom are considered patsies for repressive governments. Let's not forget that most writers in history have lived under nondemocratic regimes: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Goethe didn't actually enjoy constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech.

  Pankaj Mishra

  War, Rights, Government

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.

  Connie Zweig

  War, Enemy, Age

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, America, Grace

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• I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Cold, Joseph Mccarthy

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• When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Wind, Odor

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Cynical, Way

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• For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, War, Winning

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• I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Luck, Important

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hate, War, Giving

  "Hornsey Journal" Interview with Robert Eddison and Barry St John Nevill, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 21, 1978.

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• It's expensive to keep communism alive today. I've already got a huge foreign debt staring me in the face, and I can't reduce it by exporting tomatoes or toilet paper. We should be making dollars any way we can. And we should be exporting arms any way and every way, openly and secretly, legally or by smuggling, I don't care how.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  War, Live For Today, Dollars

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 119, 1987.

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