# Quote — Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard

> Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

- Author: [Zbigniew Brzezinski](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski.md)
- Book: [The Grand Chessboard](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard.md)
- Page: 211
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/moreover-as-america

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> With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

p. 213 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/with-the-more.md)

> To put it very simply, anyone can become an American, but only a Chinese can be Chinese - and that places an additional and significant barrier in the way of any essentially national global hegemony.

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/to-put-it-very.md)

> In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.

p. 209 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/in-the-long.md)