Calculations Quote by George Friedman Download Open image “When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.” — George Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calculations Geopolitical Lust War
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing. — Tim Hetherington Copy Share Image
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
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… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“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… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
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… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image