Ilka Chase Quotes

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

The lesson of the Cold War is that against nuclear weapons, only nuclear weapons can hold the peace.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one.

In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

The United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

The basic reason Russia has not attacked us is that we can outproduce her.

Nations are much more dangerous than terrorists in the long run.

Dictator governments are arming heavily and penetrating economically and politically in Central and South America. Japan is establishing a "new order" in China and has been informed that we will have something to say about this "new order." These activities emphasize the possibility of this nation becoming involved in war in the Atlantic, in the Pacific, or in both these areas

It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.

We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.

Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability in the entire western world.