Moises Naim Quotes

This Is Not Just An Abstract Point. What I Mean Is That Power Has A Social Function. Its Role Is Not Just To Enforce Domination Or To Create Winners And Losers: It Also Organizes Communities, Societies, Marketplaces, And The World. Hobbes Explained This Well. Because The Urge For Power Is Primal, He Argued, It Follows That Humans Are Inherently Conflictual And Competitive. Left To Express That Nature Without The Presence Of Power To Inhibit And Direct Them, They Would Fight Until There Was Nothing Left To Fight For. But If They Obeyed A "common Power," They Could Put Their Efforts Toward Building Society, Not Destroying It. "During The Time Men Live Without A Common Power To Keep Them All In Awe, They Are In That Condition Which Is Called War," Hobbes Wrote, "and Such A War As Is Of Every Man Against Every Man.

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