Great Power Quotes - Page 6

• The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

  Jeffrey Toobin

  United States, World, Surveillance

  "The Snowden Effect, Continued" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. August 20, 2013.

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• The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Knowing, Culture

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• Trust, like love, is a word that has great power Everybody deserves their own space, in their own time. You are even entitled to keep secrets. But it is not secrets that destroys things, suspicion does. For it may take many years to build trust, sometimes.. all it takes is suspicion, you don't even need proof to destroy trust. So, if you say you can trust someone, you're admitting to something that is even greater than love. Trust, like love, is a word that has great power.

  Rita Zahara

  Trust, Love Is, Years

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• To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Years, Long

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Movement, Want

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Voice, Vision

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

  William O. Douglas

  Moral Leadership, Court, Ability

  Time Magazine Interview, November 12, 1973.

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• Love is a great power, and such a strange power.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Love Is, Strange

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
  With your harmonious choir
  Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
  That my old care may cease.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Compassion, Fire

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.34

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• You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Shapes, Determined

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 07, 2011

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• Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

  Emily Blackwell

  Country, Civilization, Half

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• An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Men, Years

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• Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

  John Mearsheimer

  Army, Europe, United States

  "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.

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• In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

  John Mearsheimer

  Fighting, Rivals, Littles

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Trying, Impossible, Persist

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• For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Struggle, Moving

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Small Acts

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• The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Claims

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 262, 1991.

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• Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Nations, Great Nations, Limitation

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• France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nuisance, Politics, France

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.

  Mark Steyn

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

  Frederick William Faber

  Winning, Men, Holiness

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.34

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• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  Edmund Barton

  Exercise, People, States

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• We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Nuclear, Arms, Eras

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Cancer, Years, People

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