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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Most scientists know what needs to be done to save our Earth. But the politicians don't listen to them. They will listen to popular pressure; the people got to supply that.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.