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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Opening Up, Investing

  "The accidental hyperpower: an interview with Amy Chua". Interview with Fritz Lanham, www.chron.com. December 2, 2007.

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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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• In in some ways Jessica Jones and Supergirl are the opposite of one another, they both happen to have superpowers. But, in terms of the lack of parity, I think it is a good start and this is just the beginning I hope.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Thinking, Opposites, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

  Hilary Mason

  Teaching, Giving, Program

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• Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

  Sam Harris

  Ignorance, Degrees, World

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The picture of the world's greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny backward nation into submission on an issue whose merits are hotly disputed, is not a pretty one.

  Robert McNamara

  Issues, Trying, World

  "McNamara Recalls, and Regrets, Vietnam" by R. W. APPLE JR., www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Excellence, World

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Ideas, Long

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• My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Moving, Commitment

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• The thing that I love about The Flash and about superhero shows, in general, is that it's not about having superpowers that makes you a superhero. You don't have to be The Flash and have super speed to do the right thing. You can be a great reporter or you can be a cop, like Joe West, and still fight for the things that matter.

  Candice Patton

  Fighting, Superhero, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• And what terrifies me is that we're entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically - without any sympathy - you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It's very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every citizen to quite understand the world we're living in and the history we are a part of and we are forming as a superpower.

  Edward Said

  Citizens, Entering, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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