Best Great Powers Quotes
49 Great Powers quotes by 41 unique authors
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
— James A. Garfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
— John Burns
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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
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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
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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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