
Pompeo: China Is Biggest Threat to the United States, Breitbart, (10 December 2018)
2018
As quoted in Marvin Zonis (1991), Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, page 65
Attributed
Pompeo: China Is Biggest Threat to the United States, Breitbart, (10 December 2018)
2018
“At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.”
"Father Severyan", in November 1916: The Red Wheel: Knot II (1984; translation 1999).
Context: At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of kings, nor yet the Church — none of them has been able to stop it. And don't succumb to the facile belief that wars will be stopped by hotheaded socialists. Or that rational and just wars can be sorted out from the rest. There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, that is one of the state's essential functions. … War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand foci of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.
David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018, p.146
19th Dec. 2005
As President, 2005
"Major's Speech", The Times, 3 May 1997, p. 2.
Statement in Downing Street on 2 May 1997 following the general election in which the Conservative Party was heavily defeated. Major was just about to resign as Prime Minister and announced his decision to stand down as party leader simultaneously.
1990s, 1997
Dr. Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst
1990s
“At the beginning of a decade it is tempting to look ahead for the next ten years.”
"Some Economic Scenarios for the 1980's," 1980