George Friedman Quotes
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It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed…
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Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.
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Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their…
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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are…
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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…
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Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
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A century is about events. A decade is about people.
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Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson,…
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The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the…
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Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to…
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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…
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