For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. Jeane Kirkpatrick More Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick More Quotes From Jeane Kirkpatrick Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. Jeane Kirkpatrick rolesbreadwinning There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. Jeane Kirkpatrick totalitarian-regimesregimesfundamentals 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 idahoclasswar Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse. Jeane Kirkpatrick disciplinegovernmentpeople I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. Jeane Kirkpatrick modernstatesthinking Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations. Jeane Kirkpatrick civilized-nationsair-poweraviation 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick unemploymentpoliticalpresident 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 governmentselfthinking We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. Jeane Kirkpatrick partymilitarywar When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand. Jeane Kirkpatrick ostrichessan-franciscoworld 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 eyebrowswipelanguage 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 countries-of-the-worldnumberscountry I don't think the government (of El Salvador) was responsible. The nuns were not just nuns; the nuns were political activists. We ought to be a little more clear-cut about this than we usually are. They were political activists on behalf of the Frente and somebody who is using violence to oppose the Frente killed them. Jeane Kirkpatrick cuttinggovernmentthinking Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. Jeane Kirkpatrick limitschoicescharacter The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. Jeane Kirkpatrick speedsurprisearmy No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances. Jeane Kirkpatrick governmentmindideas They (american press) always blame America first! Jeane Kirkpatrick blameamericafirsts When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States. Jeane Kirkpatrick san-franciscoissuesunited-states 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. Jeane Kirkpatrick realgivingbelieve It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. Jeane Kirkpatrick malaisewalter-mondalecarter
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