Acquisition Quote by Robert Wright

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity…

— William James

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death…

— George Friedman

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have…

— Lester B. Pearson

“War may be the most efficient stimulus of innovation and technological advance,”

— Jack L. Chalker

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or…

— Lester B. Pearson

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and…

— Neil Postman

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce…

— Laura Esquivel

“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but…

— George Orwell

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would…

— George Washington