Edward Luttwak Quotes

#1. Like Machiavelli himself, he [Edward Luttwak] enjoys truth not only because it is true but also because it shocks the naive

Eric Hobsbawm

#2. Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

Edward Luttwak

#3. Universal emptiness is mere concept.
The fact is, there was never emptiness.

Toba Beta

#4. I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

Hilary Swank

#5. The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

William E. Conway Jr.

#6. The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely.

Timothy Noah

#7. I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

Nelly Furtado

#8. Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

Nigel Barker

#9. A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

Edward Luttwak

#10. I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

T. S. Eliot

#11. The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

Lenny Kravitz

#13. It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

Edward Luttwak

#14. The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.

Peter Drucker

#15. Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

Mason Cooley

#16. Paranoia is a form of awareness.

Peter Robinson

#17. We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

Edward N. Luttwak