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Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.
— Robert D. Kaplan
The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.
— Robert D. Kaplan
In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.
— Robert D. Kaplan
A better age would have to follow.
— Robert D. Kaplan
It bears repeating: you don't have to be good at everything.
— Robert S. Kaplan
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
— Robert S. Kaplan
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.
— Robert S. Kaplan
Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Kazakhstan is Mackinder's Heartland!
— Robert D. Kaplan
Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).
— Robert D. Kaplan
And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.
— Robert D. Kaplan
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
— Robert D. Kaplan
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
— Robert D. Kaplan
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
— Robert D. Kaplan
The threat to Europe comes not in the form of uniforms, but in the tattered garb of refugees,
— Robert D. Kaplan
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
— Robert D. Kaplan
It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.
— Robert D. Kaplan
In 1945, there were 20,000 mosques in Turkey; in 1985, 72,000, and that number has since risen steadily, out of proportion to the population.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
— Robert D. Kaplan
It is the freedom to concentrate military equipment in key locations around the world that has preserved American military might.
— Robert D. Kaplan
democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
— Robert S. Kaplan
Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
— Robert D. Kaplan
You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.
— Robert D. Kaplan
The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.
— Robert D. Kaplan
state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even.
— Robert D. Kaplan
That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy,
— Robert D. Kaplan
Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Here is America Now: smoke, greasy fumes, the friction of tire rubber, the memory of terrifying refineries with their rubbery rotten-egg smells.
— Robert D. Kaplan
There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.
— Robert D. Kaplan
As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy
— Robert D. Kaplan