Superpower Quotes - Page 9

• One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck; another, a smaller power which happens to have its boot on other people's necks. I think that anyone in the Third World would be making a grave error if they succumbed to illusions about these matters

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Errors, Two

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• I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

  Robert M. Gates

  Strong, Looks, Adults

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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• Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Extraordinary Person

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Taken, Years, People

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.

  Logan Henderson

  Flying, Ultimate

  "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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• People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

  Peter Kuznick

  Ideas, People, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

  Simon Anholt

  Public Opinion, Opinion, International

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• The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, World, Might

  Paul Craig Roberts (2010). “How the Economy was Lost: The War of the Worlds”, p.1976, AK Press

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• Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

  Andrew Mitchell

  Development, World, Brilliant

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• There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Real, Trying

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.

  Stansfield Turner

  Two, Long, Consistency

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• There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Yugoslavia, Iraq, America

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• The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

  Douglas Hurd

  Europe, America, Leaving

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• The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.

  Lech Walesa

  Doubt, Today, Lasts

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• Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Autism, Typical, Share

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

  Manmohan Singh

  Balance, United States, Interest

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• The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. It’s in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Believe, Hands, Wish

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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• I believe technology should give us superpowers. Everyone should have the opportunity to learn to think, analyze, and create with technology.

  Hilary Mason

  Believe, Technology, Opportunity

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• The great unexplored frontier is complexity ... I am convinced that the nations and people that master the new science of Complexity will become the economic, cultural, and political superpowers of the next century.

  Heinz Pagels

  People, Political, Next

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• The sheer violence of it, the howl of air raid sirens and the air-cutting fall of the missiles carried its own political message; not just to President Saddam but to the rest of the world. We are the superpower, those explosions said last night. This is how we do business.

  Robert Fisk

  Fall, Cutting, Night

  "Bubbles of fire tore into the sky above Baghdad" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 21, 2003.

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• The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Land, Yugoslavia

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• Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Two, Rooms

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

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• Canada has an immigration policy you might want to emulate. They want more skilled and educated immigrants. In fact, that's all they take. But, see, since nobody's watching them, and they're not a superpower, nobody really cares. So they are allowed to act in their best interests.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Immigration, Care, Want

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