Democracy not only requires equality but... by Jeane Kirkpatrick | We Heart Quotes

Politician Equality Value Diplomat Reagan administration

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

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

Other quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Control Years Will

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

Experience Sense God People

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

Encouraging World

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

Doctrine War Nothing People

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

Peace People

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.

- Jeane Kirkpatrick

Time World

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

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