Great Power Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.

  Greg Grunberg

  Thinking, Wife, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression.

  Suzanne Nossel

  Communication, Technology, Thinking

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Exercise, Limits, Disputes

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• Britain is a great country. We can more or less say what we like, and we can walk down the street without anyone trying to kill us. I know it's tough for some people, but generally we live in a caring society. We live in a great country, but we're no longer a great power. Part of the problem with some elements of the European debate is that they hanker for the days when we were a great power. Those days are gone, and they went a long time ago.

  Billy Bragg

  Country, Caring, Long

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Responsibility, People, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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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• Putin is now nationalist. And what he does is, he tells the Russian people, OK, you may have a little less chicken in your pot, but I'm making Russia great again. Look what we're doing all other the world. Everyone is paying attention to us. And Russia is a great power, on par with the United States and others.

  Michael McFaul

  People, Attention, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am deeply convinced that no interference from the outside, in any country, even a small one, let alone in such a vast and great power as the United States, can influence the final outcome of the elections. It is not possible. Ever.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Election, Influence

  Source: thailand.mid.ru

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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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• There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark vision, of a 19th century world where great powers do transactional issues.

  James Franklin Jeffrey

  Real, Dark, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Wall, Smart, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  Dan Brown

  Art, Rome, Pyramids

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• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Business, Responsibility

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• Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Powerful, Struggle, Biblical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Matter, Sparks, Way

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• I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and universality. I wanted to find out what it takes for two people to stay together for fifty years -- or more. I wanted to tell not the story of courtship, but the story of marriage.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Years, Two, People

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated): Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn”, p.35, Delacorte Press

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• The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

  Louise Glück

  Writing, Unsaid

  "Disruption, Hesitation, Silence". Article by Louise Glück, The American Poetry Review, Volume 22, No. 5, pp. 30-32, www.jstor.org. September-October 1993.

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• Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Money, Possession

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1815, Delphi Classics

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• He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

  Francis Atterbury

  Office, Needs, Enmity

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• The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

  Norman Mailer

  Running, Country, America

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. 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

  Mother, Men, Names

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