Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

American - Diplomat | November 19, 1926 - December 7, 2006

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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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.

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What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

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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.

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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

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