Superpower Quotes - Page 2

• I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Country, India, Want

  "The Business Ethics of J.R.D. Tata". The Hindu, July 29, 2005.

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• The world's deteriorating ecology poses as great a danger to mankind today as did the nuclear standoff between the superpowers at the height of the Cold War.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Today, Nuclear

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Impact, Influence, Viral

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Technology, America

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 47), April 16, 2002.

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• Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Crazy, Imagination

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Character, Normal, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Technology, College

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Because, I'm not paying $15 for a movie to go watch people being morose about lives that are much more interesting and exciting than mine and they hate them. I'm paying my money to see people sort of revel in doing things that I can't do.

  Mark Waid

  Hate, Crazy, People

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• I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

  Caitlin Moran

  Reading, Feminist, Rising

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• I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly and honor and a gift: it opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Believe, Inspire

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• America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Distribution Of Power, America, Historical

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.194, Basic Books

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• Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Use, Know How

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.174, Penguin

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• In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Running, Hands, America

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2013). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.7, Basic Books

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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Steve Forbes

  Defense, World, Pearls

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Nsa

  "Obama revamps U.S. surveillance" by Josh Gerstein and Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. January 17, 2014.

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• If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Hope, Young, Wells

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• Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck

  Michael Grant

  Ducks, Superhero

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• She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

  Maureen Johnson

  Stupid, Theory, Very Stupid

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “Girl at Sea”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Peace, Real, War

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• By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Technology, Years, Skills

  Antony C. Sutton (2017). “America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones”, p.209, TrineDay

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• I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

  Arundhati Roy

  Thinking, Israel, Allies

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.

  Jeff Garlin

  Laughing, People, Treats

  "Q&A: Jeff Garlin on Getting Arrested, the Chicago Cubs, and the Future of Curb Your Enthusiasm". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.

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• It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

  Mohsin Hamid

  War, America, Support

  "Pakistan must not be abandoned" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2001.

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• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

  Imelda Marcos

  Dream, Years, Sea

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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