“So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.” CountryTheoryConspiracyPakistanConspiracy Theory Author:Peter Bergen
“The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.” LongTwoWarCountryFightingTheoryConflictArguingChainsTiesPreventionSupply ChainTwo CountriesDell Author:Thomas Friedman
“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.” WorldWantCountryRunningDealsTheoryTravelTraveledForeign Countries Author:Will Rogers
“The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying of all religions that mankind has conceived. This, like the others, comes from the best qualities of human nature, even if in this, as in the others, its adherents sometimes fail to carry out the principles in their lives.” IfsHumansHas BeensCountrySometimesQualityPrinciplesDoubtFailingMankindHuman NatureTheoryIndiaSatisfyingSensibleOther CountriesReincarnationIncarnation Author:Luther Burbank
“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.” WorldBookDifferentCountryStatesUsePoliticalLiteratureInterestEconomicModernTheoryFineDevelopmentCircumstancesIntelligentStrategyLocalsVersionsDataDevelopingWelfareAnalysisWelfare StateScholarlyLocal History Author:Nancy Birdsall
“Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.” WorldCountryWould BeDifficultImpossibleTheoryRussiaSurround Author:Vladimir Putin
“When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.” PeopleRealCountryEnoughUseMightYoungThreeNamesLanguageChildhoodTheoryConceptsLettersCodeHatsOther CountriesForefathersForeign LanguageMight UseEnglish Words Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.” ThinkingWorldWayHas BeensCountryMovingIndividualEnergyHealingPracticeCenturyTheoryDevelopmentInspiredSpreadTechniqueBunchVehicleOther CountriesEnergy HealingPosseAyurvedaTheory And PracticeShakti Author:Robert Svoboda
“No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.” TryingCountryGovernmentGivenTheoryDiseaseTestsDemocraticBritishExperimentsSocialismCuresMiserableBritainDemocratic SocialismLeechesLeukemiaDemocratic Country Author:Margaret Thatcher
“The shifts happen on a regular basis, but it's like a cycle. So things come in and out of vogue and then five years later they're back in vogue. Or there seems to be a theory that this is the way the industry will go and everybody goes over that way and then something happens to the country and you're back again at the place you were.” WayYearsCountrySeemsHappensFiveTheoryIndustryBasesThings HappenFive YearsCyclesBack AgainVogue Author:Eric Fellner
“We have to work sincerely and responsibly to thwart any attempt to divide the Arab nation into small groups, with which foreign countries would deal separately. This would eventually be in the interests of Zionism, which stands behind such policies, formulating the relevant theories and promoting distorted information to world politicians, especially in the West, in order to make them adopt an approach which is harmful to the Arab nation and is even against the legitimate interests of their own countries.” WorldCountryOrderNationsInterestDealsBehindsGroupsInformationPolicyTheoryPoliticianApproachWestDividesRelevantPromotingSincerelySmall GroupsZionismForeign Countries Author:Saddam Hussein
“Constraint theory argues a number of things. First, that the impossible has to be identified. Second, that the actor is then constrained by circumstances to act a certain way. For example, should we invade ISIS? Can we invade ISIS? What would it take to invade ISIS? Once you ask that question you discover the price of that option and then you take a look at American politics and see that the country is probably not prepared to invest the 2 to 3 million people that it would take to defeat ISIS and the insurgency afterwards. All right, so that's not going to happen.” PeopleWayShouldFirstsLooksCountryHappensCertainActorsAsksNumbersMillionsImpossibleExampleTheoryCircumstancesPreparedDefeatArguingAmerican PoliticsIsisConstraintsInsurgency Author:George Friedman
“In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.” GivingIdeasCountryPartyStudyImpossibleTheoryRevolutionSocialismOctoberBolsheviksRussian RevolutionAppendixOctober Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky
“The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.” CountryPartyTheoryRevolutionPeriodsSocialismPermanentContradictionBolsheviks Author:Leon Trotsky
“I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryStatesProblemTogetherDifficultCan DoUnitedDealsCommonSituationLeaderUnited StatesPolicyExampleTheoryEasierIndiaIslamWork OutBranchesHistoricCoalitionsRivalryBangladeshArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsCountryReasonFactsEyeInterestPowerfulGroupsTheorySmartConspiracyProtectedConspiracy TheoryWool Author:Jason Ritter
“I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.” IfsWantFeelsKindCountryHardEnoughPlayEnergyFeltBoysTheoryPrejudiceFortunateAffectedBallgame Author:Taylor Swift