"The Western nations have four arms-defensive and offensive-the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Church."

"Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves."

"On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it."

"But the point, as I argued with Caplan, is not that managers are inherently less intelligent or capable as individuals. Rather, it’s that hierarchical organizations are—to borrow that wonderful phrase…"

"We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit."