As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it (âShe being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the kingâ), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: âFear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
isolationism. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. â isolationist, n.
A policy or doctrine of trying to isolate one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and generally attempting to make one's economy entirely self-reliant; seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement, both diplomatically ...