If my goals come into conflict with your goals, reason tells me that I must either thwart your goals, or give up caring about mine; but reason cannot tell me to favor one choice over the other.

We also cannot allow the old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress.

Sometimes it isn't you I hate but your power to thwart me.

These governments are repositioning themselves because they know that there will be consequences if they thwart China when its core interests are at stake.

If social engineering is based on unrealistic assessments of the priorities of other nations, development is likely to be thwarted, not enhanced.