Bertrand Russell Quotes

Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power

Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

The big question is how do you allow new powers like India and China to emerge without destabilizing the world order?

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

We have to really get used to the fact that there is more than one center in the world politics, that the unipolar world never succeeded, that there are more growing, emerging, economic, financial powers…

For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.

[Reporting on America:] It's progressive growth ... before the century has elapsed will have changed the ... colonial system of the universe and the relative position of all civilized society.

If we do not have the economic resources to be a leader, it’s going to affect our foreign policy.

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.

Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard? Or is it not a standard perpetually varying, as civilization advances, and as new nations spring up, and take their place among established political communities?

History teaches that the rise of new great powers often triggers major global conflict.

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

Europe’s slow political decline has been disguised for decades by American power.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.