A Quote by Howard Zinn

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn
American - Historian
August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

Idi Amin

The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.

Bryan Cranston

I always at home as a kid tried to move something with your hand and it doesn't move and then you get to do it in a movie. I mean my superpower is quickness but you know what I'm saying. You get a superpower and you're like "Man this is awesome. I get to pretend I have a superpower."

Evan Peters

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Ulrich Beck

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Stephen Harper

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

Tony Benn

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

Mitt Romney

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

Christopher McDougall

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

Andrew Mitchell

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development'.

Andrew Mitchell

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

Banksy

Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.

Barack Obama

Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

Thomas Sowell

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.