A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. (George F. Kennan)

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

George F. Kennan

Related topics

conduct correct foreign live order say

Related quotes

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. View quote
Alice Walker
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. View quote
Karl Marx
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. View quote
Calvin Coolidge