— Robert Kagan US-amerikanischer Politikberater und Autor 1958
Macht und Ohnmacht, Siedler, 2003, ISBN 3886807940, Übersetzer: Thorsten Schmidt
Original engl.: "A man armed only with a knife may decide that a bear prowling the forest is a tolerable danger, inasmuch as the alternative – hunting the bear armed only with a knife – is actually riskier than lying low and hoping the bear never attacks. The same man armed with a rifle, however, will likely make a different calculation of what constitutes a tolerable risk. Why should he risk being mauled to death if he doesn’t have to?" - Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. Random House 2004. p. 36. Zitiert in der Rezension von David Runciman in LRB 3. April 2003 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n07/david-runciman/a-bear-armed-with-a-gun
