Great Power Quotes - Page 10

• The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and we learn about Him in its pages. We know that it has great power. It has the power to change lives. It has the power to convert. If you read it with an open heart, you will know that it is the word of God and that it is true.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Jesus, Life Changing, Book

  "A Discussion on Scripture Study". Interview with LaRene Porter Gaunt, www.lds.org. July, 2005.

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• America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

  George W. Bush

  Greatness, America, Justice

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Great War

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• Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Victory

  Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, September 25, 1961.

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• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Men, Earth, Four

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Home, Power

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

  Aeschylus

  People, Reports

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• Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

  Anatole France

  Ignorance, Men, Conquer The World

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• The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

  James A. Garfield

  Doubt, Ability, Possession

  "President Garfield and Education : Hiram College Memorial". Book by B. A Hinsdale, p. 420, 1881.

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• Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  Powerful, War, Weapons

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• What beauty brings is huge. It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things. If you are beautiful, doors open for you; people smile at you; you are accepted in places where others aren't. So the relationship that people have with beauty, in a sense, is almost deforming.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, Doors, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.

  Charles Schumer

  Needs, Praying, Knows

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• Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moral, Ends, Aggressive

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

  James Vila Blake

  Truth, Men, Wish

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• It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

  Arthur Goldberg

  War, Rights, Temptation

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• God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

  Ray Stedman

  Love, God, Christian

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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• When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

  L. Tom Perry

  Teaching, Power, Spirit

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• Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Science, Technology, Government

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Children, Covenant

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• Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

  Steve Backley

  Moving, Good Luck, Creating

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• Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

  Umberto Eco

  Religious, Hero, Thinking

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• We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

  Paul Robeson

  Lying, Demand, Asks

  "Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism".

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• Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1228, Manonmani Publishers

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