Great Power Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Accepting, Importance, Rebuke

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going to explain to you the history of the Cold War because you certainly know it but what we see now is China as the rising economic superpower, one that is certainly moving forward.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  War, Moving, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We want to prevent further destabilization in the world. And we want the status of being a great power: We unfortunately cannot relinquish that. In the last 300 years, this status has become a part of our genetic makeup. We want to be the heart of greater Eurasia, a region of peace and cooperation. The subcontinent of Europe will also belong to this Eurasia.

  Sergey Karaganov

  Heart, Makeup, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Children, Giving Up, Father

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

  Chuck Hagel

  Nations, Great Nations, Limitation

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• I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th century regrouping in the 20th, not out of wickedness, but because everybody else in Eurasia was so completely destroyed by the Second World War. Economically, that was quite a useful time for the US, so they ended up in the position of enormous power. And like any great power, they're going to act in their own interests. The problem is due to what the business community wants, which is to make as much money as they can out of what other people do and pay as little as possible for it.

  Robert Wyatt

  War, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Nuisance, Politics, France

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

  Frederick William Faber

  Winning, Men, Holiness

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.34

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• A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

  Edmund Barton

  Exercise, People, States

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Cancer, Years, People

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• Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.

  Mark Steyn

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  People, Decision, Helping

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research in the writings within the Judaic and Christian traditions and I was astonished to find in those writings philosophical thought of great power and sophistication. These writings completely blew away all my opinions about what I had taken to be the irrationality or immaturity of religious ideas, opinions which were and still are fashionable in many intellectual and literary circles today.

  Jacob Needleman

  Christian, Religious, Philosophical

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think Donald Trump needs to be very clear to Vladimir Putin. Let's try to discover areas we can work together. That's fine. We're two a world power. They're a great power arguably. But at the same time we're not going to give any ground. We have to defend our NATO allies.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Thinking, Giving, Working Together

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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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• 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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• Business school graduates from the best schools earn large salaries and frequently rise to positions of great power. It would be nice if they used that power to truly make the world a better place - which entails more than just maximizing their own organization's profits and their own economic well-being.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Nice, School, World

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Government, Mass Destruction

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All of the things that Hillary Clinton was talking about could have been taken care of during the last 10 years, let's say, while she had great power. But they weren't taken care of. And if she ever wins this race, they won't be taken care of.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Winning, Talking

  Source: time.com

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