We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad scale of human relationships and interactions.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.