Great Power Quotes - Page 9

• The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Law

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

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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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• The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Rose, Germany

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Music, Peace, Common Humanity

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• You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.

  Seth

  Reality, Self, Judging

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• Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

  John Burns

  Fighting, Four, Should

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• The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Singing, Matter, Firsts

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

  Frank Herbert

  Exercise, Past, Fit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

  Duane Michals

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Experts, Dimes, Use

  Wendell Berry (2012). “The Long-Legged House”, p.55, Counterpoint Press

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• The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Patience, Healing, Would Be

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1963). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Teachings”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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• There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Children, Imagination

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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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• 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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• 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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