79 Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

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

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.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

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.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

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