Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

Quotes

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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.

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

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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.

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

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.

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.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

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

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

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