Luttwak Geoeconomics Quotes & Sayings

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. — Howard Rheingold

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. — William James

We are shaped by the people and events that came before us: their likes and dislikes, their choice of life partner, the vocations they chose, the events they took part in or caused to happen, and the legacies they left behind. — Marion Marchetto

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things. — Annabelle Selldorf

The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still
off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. — Robert Frost

If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere. — Blake Lively

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized — Robyn Davidson

It is not easy to free
myth from reality
or rear this fellow up
to lutch, lurch with them
in the tranced dancing of men. — Earle Birney

Now fix the drink and then tell me what happened. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is a vibrational effect in every action, just as there is vibration that rings from every letter in every word. — Suzy Kassem