Best Great Powers Quotes

49 Great Powers quotes by 41 unique authors

Great wars can only be fought by great powers. — Michael Mandelbaum
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in… — John Boyd Orr
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis. — John R. Allen
In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically… — Jean-Claude Juncker
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield
The majority of the so-called great powers have long been exploiting and enslaving a whole series of small and weak peoples. And the imperialist war… — Vladimir Lenin
First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench… — Winston Churchill
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can… — Euripides
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great… — John F. Kennedy
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face… — Duane Michals
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7… — Bayard Taylor
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the… — Stephen Kinzer
Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy… — Stephen Kinzer
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. — Thomas P.M. Barnett
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand. — John Burns
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were… — Edward Grey
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of… — Leon Jouhaux
There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by… — Conrad Black

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