[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

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

At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

What exists, is possible.

The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.