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We are at war with violent extremism. We are at war with people who use their religion for purposes of power and oppression.
— Hillary Clinton
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.
— Pope Francis
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
— Dustin Hoffman
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
— Anthony Mason
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.
— Thomas S. Power
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
— Zaha Hadid
Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.
— Harold Holzer
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
— Elliott Abrams
The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice.
— Tom Feiling
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.
— Thucydides
My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.
— Roger Klare
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
— Whittaker Chambers
The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
— Winston Churchill
War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.
— William Broyles Jr.
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
— Miyamoto Musashi
That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
— Frederick Lenz
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
— Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.
— Tom Ridge
Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?
— Ian McEwan
Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
— Bertrand De Jouvenel
In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
— Kenneth Clark
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.
— Sun Tzu
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
— Henry Kissinger
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
— Lincoln Chafee
the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.
— June Jordan
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.
— Livy
One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire.
— Steven Pinker
Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile.
— Frederick Maurice
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
— Thomas Jefferson
If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war.
— Debasish Mridha
There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.
— Michael Ondaatje
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If everyone empowers themselves with power of their love, there will be only happiness and no war.
— Debasish Mridha
We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
— Harry S. Truman
I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
— Fidel Castro
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.
— Susan Abulhawa
Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.
— Simon Adams
Where power beckoned the strongest of men to come and lay hold to its glory, there would always be greed and war.
— Lexy Timms
We had become a country that valued security over freedom, power over justice, and war over peace.
— Robert Kroese
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.
— Ian Bremmer
There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
— Chris Hedges
Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.
— F. A. Harper
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
— Adolf Hitler