“Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?”
Source: Ender's Shadow
“Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.”
In late January 2016, as quoted in "The Obama Doctrine" by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
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