We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes...
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
The seed of everything is in everything else.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That...
Information is power. But like all power, there are...