Powers Quotes - page 11

Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants. (Amy Chua)
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 in their rise to global dominance. View quote
Amy Chua
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
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 first one, then another of the competing great powers. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. View quote
Clara Zetkin
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 the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. View quote
Lincoln Peirce
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. View quote
Denis Waitley
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. View quote
Wendell Willkie
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers. (Christopher Dawson)
I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo. View quote
Tite Kubo
It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north. View quote
Jo Cox
Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises. View quote
Spencer W. Kimball
I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers. View quote
Albert Gallatin
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary. View quote
Alcee Hastings
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. View quote
Anna Garlin Spencer
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. View quote
Armstrong Williams
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. View quote
Adrian Cronauer
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. (Brian Ferneyhough)
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. View quote
Brooke Westcott
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. View quote
Cai Guo-Qiang
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. View quote
Charles Buck