Great Powers Quotes

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I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant… — Amy Chua
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American nationalisms, there will remain in… — Adolf Hitler
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are… — Henry Tizard
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. — John F. Kennedy
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional… — Gwynne Dyer
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out… — Paul Keating
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free… — Woodrow Wilson
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not… — Edwin Percy Whipple
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has… — Steven Biko
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been… — John Boyd Orr
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .… — Umberto Eco
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But… — Nhat Hanh
To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need… — Paul Cornell
All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of… — Hjalmar Branting
The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth… — Laozi
Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction.… — Steve Backley

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