History Quotes / ColdWar

->'''Number Two:''' It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.\\
'''Number Six:''' It's run by one side or the other.\\
'''Number Two:''' Oh, certainly, but [[WarForFunAndProfit both sides are becoming identical.]] What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that ''this'' is the pattern for the future.\\
'''Number Six:''' The whole world as the Village?

->'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''' Like your ridiculous suicide project? "There is but one way out for you!" That dumb letter attempting to drive King into despair only [[StupidCrooks alerted him to the level of our surveillance.]]

->'''Cigarette-Smoking Man:''' I respect [[TheCivilRightsMovement King]]. He's an extraordinary man. But now he's talking like a Maoist. And if he convinces Negroes not to fight in Vietnam, we'll lose, and the first domino will have fallen.

->'''Donna Moss''': It was people pushing paper around fifty years ago. Why does it matter?\\
'''Sam Seaborn''': It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal. This country is an idea, and one that's lit the world for two centuries. And treason against that idea is not just a crime against ''the living.'' This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.

'''Number Two:''' Oh, certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community -- a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that ''this'' is the pattern for the future.\\

->''"In my view, [[{{Russia}} it's a dungeon]]. It's a dungeon with a certain degree of social services. It is also a threat. It's a threat to its government, it's a threat to its own government, it's a threat to any nations within its reach. But its reach doesn't happen to by very long...On the other hand, the United States has created the image of a Soviet threat for the same reasons that ''they'' created the image of an American threat: as a way for us to [[NotSoDifferent justify intervention and aggression in our own domains.]]"''

But [[RedScare my passport's disappearing ]]as I sing these words to you\\

-->--'''Mike Toreno''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas

-->--'''Nikita Khrushchev'''

The whole world is off limits, visit {{Disneyland}} this year"''

-> ''"If you ''[the USA]'' start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you."''
-->--'''Nikita Khrushchev'''

->'''Yahtzee:''' Everyone was living with the Cold War over their heads at the time. A lot of people were brought up thinking they were gonna get atomized any day now.\\

'''Gabriel:''' That'd be an interesting way to live. I'd be a war bigger dick.

'''Gabriel:''' That'd be an interesting war to live. I'd be a war bigger dick.

-->--'''Archibald MacLeish'''

-> ''"If you [the USA] start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you."''

->''"We were then, without public debate, committed to a [[ForeverWar never-ending war]], even though the management knew that the enemy was no match for us, economically or militarily. But, through relentless CIA 'disinformation,' they managed to convince us that what was weak was strong, and that the Russians were definitely coming. '[[YouMayPanicNow Build backyard shelters against the coming atomic war!]]' A generation was well and truly traumatized."''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Dreaming War''