Care Quote by John Mearsheimer Download Open image “States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.” — John Mearsheimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Care Economic Foundation Might Military Money Relative States Wealth
Military might is built on economic might. You need an economic foundation to build a really powerful military. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The government can afford to supply the military, but can't feed the poor people. — Ace Hood Copy Share Image
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens... — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“Secondly, while the price of war soared, its profits declined. For most of history, polities could enrich themselves by looting or annexing enemy territories.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There are few problems in the world that economic prosperity cannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierce attack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The unpleasant truth is that some borders are untenable and preserving them causes conflict, not peace. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Great powers react harshly when distant rivals project military power into their neighborhood, much less attempt to make a country on their border an… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
When the United States worked to contain the Soviet Union during the Cold War, we went to enormous lengths to get as many countries… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The central aim of American foreign policy has traditionally been to dominate the western hemisphere while not permitting another great power to dominate Europe… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are the ideal middle-class weapons for Americans. They provide massive amounts of deterrence on the cheap. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Erosion of sovereignty is one more reason a powerful state with a liberal foreign policy ends up fighting never ending wars and fostering militarism… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Simply put, the most powerful state is the one that prevails in a dispute. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
What disappoints me about Obama is that, when he came into office, he gave the impression he was going to reduce America's global commitments,… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
We all know what it feels like to love someone and care about them and want to protect them. — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
What makes you care about nature, about the planet? Is it really that you're afraid of what's going to happen if you don't take… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image