Peace Quotes by George Friedman

9 Peace quotes by George Friedman

George Friedman’s geopolitical lens is distilled into nine short reflections, giving a concise perspective on the pursuit of calm.

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

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The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

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The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

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“If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.”

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

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I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that…

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I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman…

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Every theory I've seen that contains an explanation of war fails. I think they fail for the same reason that explanations of…

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War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and…

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We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a…

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“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and…

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When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly…

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“The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this:…

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If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

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Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid…

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