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Ivan showed that in his time and place the only antidote to chaos was absolutism.

The search for power is not made for the achievement of moral values; moral values are used to facilitate the attainment of power.

Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.

Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.

In Iraq, order, even of totalitarian dimensions, turned out to be more humane than the lack of order that followed.

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

A better age would have to follow.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

Kazakhstan is Mackinder's Heartland!

Mass education, because it produces hosts of badly educated people liberated from fatalism, will contribute to instability (p. 123).

And believe me, there is nobody who hates Communism more than a former Communist.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

The threat to Europe comes not in the form of uniforms, but in the tattered garb of refugees,

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

It was the union of Franks, Goths, and Roman provincials against these Asiatics that produced the basis for modern France.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

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.

of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

As Napoleon said, to know a nation's geography is to know its foreign policy

There are riches enough for all of us, no matter our abilities or circumstances. It is only the inspiration that requires summoning.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

Here is America Now: smoke, greasy fumes, the friction of tire rubber, the memory of terrifying refineries with their rubbery rotten-egg smells.

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources.

That technology has canceled geography contains just enough merit to be called a plausible fallacy,

state's position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even.

It is the freedom to concentrate military equipment in key locations around the world that has preserved American military might.

Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.

Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.

You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.

Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Europe's era of internal cohesion may already be past.

democracy that cannot control its own population may be worse for human rights than a dictatorship that can.