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. Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Jeremy Grantham

#3. Lifers who had been around long enough to understand the game with some perspective

Dan Brown

#4. Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

Ezra Koenig

#5. I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

Robert Carlyle

#6. He patted my shoulder. "What's up with you? All of a sudden, you're bucking the system."
"i got drunk and had an epiphany."
"Shit, this is serious!" He gasped. "Last time that happened to me, i woke up gay.

J.C. Isabella

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

Edward N. Luttwak

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

Edward Luttwak

#9. Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

Edward Luttwak

#10. 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

#11. Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.

Shan Sa

#12. What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

Isabel Wilkerson