I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
In the years just before… during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn’t manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn’t be too surprised that it should infect the church as well. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. Jeane Kirkpatrick Read Quote
