84 Quotes by George Friedman

And from this story I learned about the geopolitics of taking out one’s salami.

Europe was barbaric in the sixteenth century, as the self-certainty of Christianity fueled the first conquests. Europe passed into civilization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and then collapsed into decadence in the course of the twentieth century. The United States is just beginning its cultural and historical journey.

The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.