George F. Kennan Quote

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.


As quoted in Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) by Anders Stephanson, p. 160


There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our...

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our...

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our...

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our...