#powers

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 powers alone. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#concern #disputes #great #lead #longer

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #democratic system #effect #enough #moment

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#allegiance #great #idol #must #powers

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#candle #christians #demonic #does #fail

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#development #even #exactly #go #hindrance

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#alone #give #giving #greatest #intangible

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. ↗

— John Stossel

#discovery #fuel #innovation #own #people

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#become #being #besides #consider #extraordinary

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#commitment #courage #defend #indebted #islam