Great Power Quotes - Page 5

• Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
  With your harmonious choir
  Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
  That my old care may cease.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Compassion, Fire

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.34

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• Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

  Peter Jackson

  Kindness, Believe, Small Acts

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• The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Claims

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 262, 1991.

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• Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Police, Actors, Neighborhood

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• If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Pain, Good Friday, Suffering

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• Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Heart, Truth Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.

  Lord Buckley

  Garden, Miracle, Magic

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• Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in perspective - that we are the great power, they are the minor power. I don't think there are a great many American parents who will want to sacrifice their soldiers and children so Israel can maintain the West Bank. When that becomes clear, I think Israel's days are numbered as an ally that is never questioned or criticized.

  Michael Scheuer

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

  Mark Steyn

  Ambition, Long, Slumps

  Mark Steyn (2012). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.36, Regnery Publishing

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• There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

  Dada Maravilha

  Dad, Heaven, Three

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• When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Two, Arbitration

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• We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Nuclear, Arms, Eras

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1973

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• I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen.

  Louise Glück

  Vocabulary, Silence, Wish

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• Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

  Emily Blackwell

  Country, Civilization, Half

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• Man's great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

  Linus Pauling

  Men, Thinking, Civilization

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Years, Long

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

  Manmohan Singh

  Thinking, Chinese, Vision

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• One person reads the book, and cannot help telling a friend. That is vastly superior to any kind of advertisement, or clever magazine article. That is also the great power of the internet, where people share their opinions without the annoying screen of the media, and so much of the presence of my books has come from the Internet. It's a new era, a new form of war, and I embrace it.

  Robert Greene

  Clever, War, Book

  Source: powerseductionandwar.com

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• I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

  Mark Parker

  Views, People, Creative

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Responsibility, People, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.

  Terry Gross

  Husband, Father, Adults

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• Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

  John Mearsheimer

  Goal, Forever, Survival

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.388, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Men, Years

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• For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Struggle, Moving

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• The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

  Roman Baldorioty de Castro

  Crush, Honesty, Men

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