Cold War Quotes

Most popular cold war quotes

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. - Henry Kissinger quote.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

nuclear weapons

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. - J. Robert Oppenheimer quote.
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

nuclear weapons

Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war. - Bernard Baruch quote.
Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war.
An iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Winston Churchill quote.
An iron curtain has descended across the Continent.