A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
More from: Friedrich Durrenmatt
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. -
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. -
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. -
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
More quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt
- Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
- Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
- Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
- Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
- News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.