Great Power Quotes - Page 10

• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  John Kasich

  Religious, War, Hippie

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• Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Evil, Principles, World

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• In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Military, War, Views

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

  Aeschylus

  People, Reports

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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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• 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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• How does your heart respond to the thought that the Universe is alive and compassionate and that with it and with other souls of great power and Light you learn through the process of co-creating the reality that you experience?

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Reality, Light

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 22, 2015

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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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• 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 may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Karma, War, Ignorance

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.75, Parallax Press

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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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• To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Years, Turkeys

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• There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

  M. Russell Ballard

  Strong, Prayer, Couple

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• Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power

  Pen Densham

  Cousin, Madness, Fear Not

  Simon R. Green, Pen Densham (1991). “Kevin Costner is Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves: a novel”, Berkley

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• I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.

  James Woods

  Thinking, Tasks, Facts

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• An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

  Walter Lippmann

  Offering, Stronger, Links

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• Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Power, Events, Judgment

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