[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.

[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.