George Friedman Quotes

Elsewhere I Have Argued That Civilizations Are Divided Into Three Phases. The First Phase Is Barbarism, A Time When People Believe That The Laws Of Their Own Village Are The Laws Of Nature, As George Bernard Shaw Put It. The Second Phase Is Civilization, Where People Continue To Believe In The Justice Of Their Ways But Harbor Openness To The Idea That They Might Be In Error. The Third Phase, Decadence, Is The Moment In Which People Come To Believe That There Is No Truth, Or That All Lies Are Equally True.

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