Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
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.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
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Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.
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The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
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An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
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Within the context of life, I am the centrist pragmatist who doesn't even vote; within the context of sports, I am a potential war criminal.
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
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I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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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.
