Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Politics, Today

• In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Historical, Today

• Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook ... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... Further progress will require greater American sacrifices. More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken, with some consequent risk to the present relatively favorable American position.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Cutting, Sacrifice

• Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country in Western Europe or in America can any longer adopt the idea of totally free movement of people. I t would simply overwhelm their social facilities, their societies and create migratory dynamics on the scales of tens and tens of millions of people. That simply is not practical.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Thinking, Europe

• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Views, Vision

• Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated to the West. That's where they sought their security; I don't think there was a way to avoid that. If we tried to exclude them, we would have today not one Europe, we would have three Europes: one in the West, one in the middle and one in the East, and the middle would be insecure and a tempting target. The insecurity felt [today] by Eastern Europe would be replicated on a much larger and more consequential scale.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearworld.com

• Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Numbers, Today

• Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mistake, Self, America

• America is the number one superpower today in the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Numbers, America, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

• The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Justice, People, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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