I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

Part of me regrets not finishing college.

Ice is for death and endings.

I like being misunderstood.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments?