"The United States doesn't do what it does……" — Michael Mandelbaum
"The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government."
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36 Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum has 36 quotes on this site.
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If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be…
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The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,
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In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a…
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After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and…
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First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about…
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The world needs a strong America.
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient…
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United…
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
— Mortimer Adler
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The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic…
— Jo Brand
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various…
— Dalai Lama
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever…
— Ayn Rand
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
— Richard J. Foster
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always…
— Dian Fossey
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious…
— Karl Rahner
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,…
— Roger N. Walsh
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
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