Quotes by Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events.

Events

Important

Interesting

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We’re living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

Corporations

Form

Malls

An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon’s concept of an ‘ingenuity gap’ is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the ‘ingenuity gap’. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

Reflection

War

Writing

Bismarck’s genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

Genius

Men

Past

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you’ve got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

Air

Frustration

United States

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

Empires

Long

Looks

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that’s a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

America

Different

World

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire – different from Britain’s and Rome’s but an empire nonetheless.

America

Rome

United States

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

Development

Poverty

Upheaval

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

Easy

Moral

Perfectionist

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Atrocities

Black

Book

Challenges

Chinese

Corporations

Country

Demand

Deployment

Destiny

Development

Different

Dishes

Easy

Empires

Events

Expansion

Faces

Fighting

Form

Frustration

Future

Genius

Giving

Giving Up

Government

Happened

Important

Individual

Innocence

Insecure

Interesting

Issues

Long

Looks

Malls

Maps

Mass

May

Mean

Media

Men

Military

Moral

Neighbors And Friends

Organization

Past

People

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Quotes by Robert D. Kaplan

Robert D. Kaplan

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events.

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We’re living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

Bismarck’s genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past.

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you’ve got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

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

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire – different from Britain’s and Rome’s but an empire nonetheless.

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

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

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