"You can do anything…but before you can do anything, you have to do something."
- Clifford Cohen
"Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle."
"Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other."
"Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other."
"All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense."
"We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you shou..."
"Why do the powerful always insist on having a “back story” to justify whatever they do? Why can’t they—just once—do something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for rea..."
"We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained."
"Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control."
"Note from Alien cookbook: “The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes."