International politics Quotes

“[In case of zombie uprising] Marxists and Feminists would likely sympathize more with zombies. To Marxists, the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat. Unless the zombies were all undead white males, feminists would likely welcome the posthuman smashing of existing patriarchal structures.”

“Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.”

“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”

“Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.”

“International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.”

“Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.”

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.”

“Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.”

“Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.”