George F. Kennan Quote

Ordinary politeness, including even a certain charitable reticence, can easily conceal feelings of a quite different nature. Outward deference, as everyone knows who has ever occupied a high executive position, easily slips over into unctuousness and flattery.


Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy, 1993


Ordinary politeness, including even a certain charitable reticence, can easily conceal feelings of a quite different nature. Outward deference, as...

Ordinary politeness, including even a certain charitable reticence, can easily conceal feelings of a quite different nature. Outward deference, as...

Ordinary politeness, including even a certain charitable reticence, can easily conceal feelings of a quite different nature. Outward deference, as...

Ordinary politeness, including even a certain charitable reticence, can easily conceal feelings of a quite different nature. Outward deference, as...