Anatol Rapoport Quotes

The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

Anatol Rapoport

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Live
  • Harmony

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• I love baseball, and the door remains open.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Love
  • Baseball
  • Door

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Want
  • Religion

• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Know
  • Details
  • Relevant

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• Music is like the soul of the planet.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Like

• People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Painting

• I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Guy
  • Wife
  • Lazy

• Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Texas

• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Age

• If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • True
  • Exercise
  • Mood

• It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Empathy

• The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

  

  Stephen Graham Jones
  • Control
  • Humor
  • Horror

• No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

  

  Denis Leary
  • People
  • Rest
  • Military

• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Military
  • Forces
  • Diffuse