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A Guerra do Paraguai foi o fator mais importante na construção da identidade brasileira no século XIX. Superou até mesmo as proclamações da Independência e da República.


“A late-nineteenth-century colonial-national movement thus adorned itself with a biblical coat that was powerfully attractive to Bible-reading Protestants in Great Britain and the United States, blinding them to the modernity of Zionism and to its colonial nature: for how could Jews be “colonizing” the land where their religion began?”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

“Indeed, in many respects the story of Israel’s intelligence community as recounted in this book has been one of a long string of impressive tactical successes, but also disastrous strategic failures. Toward the end of his life, Dagan, like Sharon, understood this. He came to the conclusion that only a political solution with the Palestinians—the two-state solution—could end the 150-year conflict”
― Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
― Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
“Em suma, apresentaremos o socialismo como um projeto de caráter desenvolvimentista e, portanto, alicerçado em um Estado com capacidade política e institucional de gerar demanda para suas empresas e utilizar seus bancos como financiadores de grandes empreendimentos.”
― China: O Socialismo do Século XXI
― China: O Socialismo do Século XXI

“The study of history offers no manual of instructions that can be applied automatically; history teaches by analogy, shedding light on the likely consequences of comparable situations.”
― Diplomacy
― Diplomacy

“We are really the revolutionaries in the world today,” Gordon Moore declared in 1973, “not the kids with the long hair and beards who were wrecking the schools a few years ago.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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