George Friedman: Century

George Friedman is American businessman and political scientist. Explore interesting quotes on century.
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“Mexico will emerge as a major global economic power. Ranked fourteenth or fifteenth early in the century, it will be firmly within the top ten by 2080. With a population of 100 million, it will be a power to be reckoned with anywhere in the world—except on the southern border of the United States.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 239

“The twenty-first century will be the American century”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century will be the American century.

“The twenty-first century has begun with an American success”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century has begun with an American success that on the surface looks like not only a deafeat but a deep political and moral embarrassment.

“[D]isequilibrium will dominate the twenty-first century, as will efforts to contain the United States. It will be a dangerous century, particularly for the rest of the world.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 47

“[T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001, ten years later, when planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18

“When I was growing up in the 1950s, the twenty-first century was an idea associated with science fiction, not a reality in which I would live. Practical people focus on the next moment and leave the centuries to dreamers. But the truth is that the twenty-first century has turned out to be a very practical concern to me. I will spent a good deal of my life in it.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 254

“Old institutions have shattered, but new ones have not yet emerged. The twenty-first century will be a period in which a range of new institutions, moral systems, and practices will begin their first tentative emergence. The first half of the twenty-first century will be marked by intense social conflict globally. All of this frames the international struggles of the twenty-first century.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 64