Containment Quotes:

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

- Sam Francis

topic: Space, Painting, Containment

It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

- George F. Kennan

source: "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

topic: Long, United States, Elements, Long Term Goals, Containment

It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?

- Samuel P. Huntington

topic: Country, Japan, Europe, Asian Countries, Containment

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

- George F. Kennan

topic: Mistake, Principles, Doctrine, Containment, Prevailing

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

- Robert Dallek

topic: War, President, Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Containment

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

topic: Yield, Self, Play, Containment

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

- Bobby Jindal

source: "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

topic: Winning, Play, Loser, Containment, Play To Win

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

- Peter Shumlin

source: "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

topic: Design, Care, Cost, Containment

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.

- Zalmay Khalilzad

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: War, Issues, Long, Containment

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: War, College, Degrees, Phds, Containment

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

- Alice Munro

source: FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Aug 04, 2011

topic: Pride, Self, Faces, Containment, Fierceness

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

- Carl Jung

topic: Heart, Want, Fallen, Containment

When you are unconditionally open and soft in your heart while your self empties and while your self fills, you live fulfilling the law of containment.

- John de Ruiter

topic: Heart, Self, Law, Containment

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

- Robert Frank

source: "Photographers on photography: a critical anthology". Book by Nathan Lyons, p. 66, 1966.

topic: Photography, Two, Humanity, Photography And Film, Containment

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: War, Today, Cold, Containment

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

- Paige Bradley

topic: Strong, Wall, Attachment, Umbilical Cord, Containers

It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological and sometimes military pressure to fall into line.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.166, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Curse Words, Caustic, Containment

We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

- Michael Herr

source: Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

topic: Hands, Enemy, Warfare, Scorched Earth, Containment

The reactors in Japan are stable in the same way that a ticking time bomb is also stable. It wouldn't take much to light the fuse - a 6.6 earthquake, like what happened today in Japan, a pipe break, an over-pressurized containment vessel - anything could set it off, in which case we would have another Chernobyl, three times the magnitude of a Chernobyl accident.

- Michio Kaku

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Light, Japan, Earthquakes, Containment, Chernobyl

Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

topic: Country, Crazy, Eye, Containment

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

- Robert M. Pirsig

topic: Substance, World, Patterns, Containment

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

- Saul Williams

topic: Rap, Ghetto, Ideas, Containment, Black Ghetto

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

- Sean Connery

topic: Thinking, Self, Decision, Till The End, Containment

In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act, which, when it became law, made a change of regime in Baghdad official US policy. You might therefore say that, when it comes to Iraq, President Bush is just enforcing the McCain-Lieberman policy.

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Years, Law, Iraq, Inspectors, Containment

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots.

- Jay Sekulow

topic: Christian, Religious, Mean, Containment

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs.

- Bette Davis

topic: Art, Emotional, Discipline, Spilling, Wheezing

In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...

- Carol Tavris

topic: Sports, Children, Law, Containment, Child Rearing

Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Determination, War, Commitment, Declaring War, Containment

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

- Naomi Wallace

topic: Reading, Thinking, Years, Times Of Crisis, Containment

None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts.

- David Eagleman

topic: Airplane, Mean, Trying, Jaguars, Right Way

We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.

- Peter Diamandis

source: Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

topic: Pda, Car, Attention, Containment

Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree to which the ethos of containment and punishment now creeps into spheres of everyday life that were largely immune in the past from this type of state violence. This is not merely barbarism parading as reform - it is also a blatant indicator of the degree to which sadism and the infatuation with violence have become normalized in a society that seems to take delight in dehumanizing itself.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: School, Past, Ethos, Sadism, Containment