“Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.” Quote by James Fallows
“Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.” WorldShouldPlansSecurityMilitaryModelsAssumptionStaticUnpredictability Author:James Fallows
“Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.” PeopleFeelsFateSocietyInfluenceBroadsRadius Author:James Fallows
“Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.” WorldWaySelfFoundIndividualTermInterestDealsSuccessfulProgressSocietySucceedCollectivesSelf InterestOutside WorldCollective Good Author:James Fallows
“Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.” ThinkingCountryMightEconomyRichChinaContraryEfficientRich Countries Author:James Fallows
“Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.” ViewsDevelopmentThreatEnvironmentalChinaDisaster Author:James Fallows
“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.” PeopleWarStageDecadesDisasterVietnamVietnam War Author:James Fallows
“I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.” CurrentsOpeningReformDiscussionGiantsWormsOngoingPatentsCopyrightTrademarksCans Of Worms Author:James Fallows
“I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.” NeedsFactsFacesValuesCasesI've LearnedSarcasticSpellsFace ValueBeing Sarcastic Author:James Fallows