Edward Luttwak quotes

“Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.”
-- Edward Luttwak

#Cohesion Quotes #Mass Quotes

“A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.”
-- Edward Luttwak

Source : Edward Luttwak (1979). “Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook”, p.27, Harvard University Press

#Government Quotes #Used Quotes #States Quotes

“It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.”
-- Edward Luttwak

#Useless Quotes #Hard Quotes

“Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.”

“Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.”

Source : Steve Tesich, E. L. Doctorow (2004). “Karoo”, p.325, Open City Books

“Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.”

“I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.”

“The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”

“If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.”

“By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.”

“I'm not a mass-appeal artist.”

“I founded this school for the masses.”

“It is the Mass that matters.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”