Robert D. Kaplan Quotes - Page 2

• Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Corporations, Form, Malls

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• If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  America, Different, World

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• When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Country, Fighting, Giving

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• The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening and more numerous Slavs-the more insecure and dangerous nationalism becomes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Insecure, Southern, World

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.52, Picador

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