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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers. -- Armstrong Williams
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. -- Joschka Fischer
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. -- Joe Biden
When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players. -- Julius Erving
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. -- Condoleezza Rice
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers. -- Daniel H. Pink
The balance of power is the scale of peace. -- Thomas Paine
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. -- Henry A. Kissinger
American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region. -- Kim Dae-jung
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. -- Woodrow Wilson
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. -- Barbara Tuchman
What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region. -- Vali Nasr
It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed. -- Mike Huckabee
As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian. -- Helen Fielding
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive. -- Kurt Hahn
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power. -- Ellen Willis
The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos. -- Dan Brown
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war. -- Thomas Jefferson
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong. -- Thomas Paine
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope. -- Condoleezza Rice
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that harmony built into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice. -- Pope Paul VI
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history. France is the outright prizewinner where anti-Semitism is concerned. -- David Pryce-Jones
The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium. -- Jason Calacanis
American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region. -- Kim Dae-jung
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. -- John Lewis Gaddis
Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage. -- Theodor Mommsen
If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. -- John Bright
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. -- Arthur Henderson
Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves. -- Marian Keyes
Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north -- Michael Pollan
Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. -- Michael Pollan
The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. -- John Adams
When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life. -- Gloria Feldt
To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel. -- Peter Tosh
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes. -- Barbara Kingsolver
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance. -- Bryant McGill
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. -- Shulamith Firestone
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again. -- Dennis C. Blair
Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design. -- Jacob Appelbaum
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons--new and uncertain nations--new pressures of population and deprivation. -- John F. Kennedy
Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts. -- Jane Fonda
We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. -- Arianna Huffington
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. -- Bonnie Raitt
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.. -- Mike DeWine
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power. -- Aeschylus
People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training. -- Conor McGregor
The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. -- Trudi Canavan
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force. -- Anthony de Jasay
'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. -- Trudi Canavan
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded. -- Frederick Lenz
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system. -- Trudi Canavan
The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded. -- Frederick Lenz
You have been given a great power. But no power comes without a price. That is how magic works. How the universe works. All things kept in balance. -- Mindee Arnett
the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option. -- Peter Hitchens
The cartoonist's task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Michael Leunig
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise. -- Frederick Lenz

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