quotes about Great Power
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Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
-- Charles Schumer -
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.
-- Chuck Hagel -
Great power involves great responsibility
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
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You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
-- John R. Allen -
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power...
-- Louise GlückSource : "Disruption, Hesitation, Silence". Article by Louise Glück, The American Poetry Review, Volume 22, No. 5, pp. 30-32, www.jstor.org. September-October 1993.
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
-- Michael Mandelbaum -
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
-- Mohammed Reza PahlaviSource : "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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We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.
-- Paul RobesonSource : "Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism".
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With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
-- Rick Riordan -
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
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Love is a great power, and such a strange power...
-- Sergei LukyanenkoSource : Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax
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All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
-- Stephen Vizinczey -
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
-- Vernon Howard -
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Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.
-- William Shirley