“The moment Russia mobilizes, Germany also will mobilize, and will unquestionably mobilize her whole army.”

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

after 1920, The Epic, From immobile form to mobile form (1925)

Source: The Technological Society (1954), p. 102

On Sir Winston Churchill, in a CBS broadcast (30 November 1954)

2013, Remarks on Economic Mobility (December 2013)
Context: So let me repeat: The combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. And it is not simply a moral claim that I’m making here. There are practical consequences to rising inequality and reduced mobility. For one thing, these trends are bad for our economy. One study finds that growth is more fragile and recessions are more frequent in countries with greater inequality. And that makes sense. When families have less to spend, that means businesses have fewer customers, and households rack up greater mortgage and credit card debt; meanwhile, concentrated wealth at the top is less likely to result in the kind of broadly based consumer spending that drives our economy, and together with lax regulation, may contribute to risky speculative bubbles.

Source: The Man in the High Castle (1962)

About the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981), pp. 228–229

My Day (1935–1962)
Context: This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people. (16 April 1954 )