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Geopolitician Inspirational Quotes (369)

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We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
Ellsworth Huntington
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Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
George F. Kennan
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Some among the European elite have sought out confrontation with us. As a consequence, we won't help Europe, although we could do so when it comes to the refugee question. A joint closure of borders would be essential. In this regard, the Russians would be 10 times more effective than the Europeans.
Sergey Karaganov
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We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.
George Friedman
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The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.
George Friedman
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Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
George F. Kennan
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A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.
Ali Mazrui
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Ali Mazrui
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Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.
Ali Mazrui
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War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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The American empire should be destroyed.
Aleksandr Dugin
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An important aspect of the Eurasian worldview is an absolute denial of Western civilization. In the opinion of the Eurasians, the West with its ideology of liberalism is an absolute evil.
Aleksandr Dugin
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Iran of course is Shiite, while the bulk of the Arabs are Sunni, that is a problem or could be a problem. Also, there is the simple fact that Iran is non-Arab and most of the Muslims in the Middle East are Arab.
Samuel P. Huntington
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The basis of association and antagonism among countries has changed over time.
Samuel P. Huntington
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I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.
Immanuel Wallerstein
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It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.
Edward Luttwak
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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