Global Voices

One powerful force is the use of language to tell stories.

Diversity is not a threat it is indeed our strength.

At the same time, we also know what our strengths are.

Now we're not using our strength because we are the biggest sissies in the jungle.

lt lt For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. gt gt Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

Sing aloud unto God our strength make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

We've surrendered our power, trading off our discomfort with uncertainty for the illusion of certainty that they provide.

The motive seems to be brutally simple Precisely because you want it, we won t deliver. We can do what we like because we re strong again.

Our enemies (Turkey ISIS) thought they would destroy belief on independence in Kobanê.

It requires unity amongst diversity, which has been, is and will continue to be, our greatest strength.

We appeared stronger in the diplomatic arena than our economic and military power might warrant.

And we use this money for our household expenses, said Mung Ra. In 2011, locals were ordered to move as farmlands and bamboo trees were cleared for the dam project.

Of course, these contradictions are real, but our main source of strength cannot be their weakness.

China today is increasingly becoming for Europe what the United States was yesterday a mirror reflecting our weaknesses and our strengths.

We have been battered by hurricanes, we have been starved of resources through premature graduation from the use of soft resources of the international financial institutions and we have been deprived of our sugar industry, which employed 10 per cent of our own labour force.

There are ways to define our interests in which, while protecting ourselves with hard power, we can organize with others in networks to produce, not only public goods, but ways that will enhance our soft power.

In his inaugural address in 2009, President Barack Obama stated that our power grows through its prudent use our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

If power is the ability to obtain the outcomes one wants, it is important to remember that sometimes our power is greater when we act with others rather than merely over others.

The fundamental values of peace, security and freedom ensured by the United Nations are also held dearly by the Timorese, reflecting our strength in building Timor Leste to become a strong and sustainable nation.

The explanation for our expanded morality comes from intelligence, imagination, and culture. One powerful force is the use of language to tell stories.

As Obama said in his 2014 State of the Union address, in a world of complex threats, our security depends on all elements of our power including strong and principled diplomacy.

The address also embraced social welfare ( The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us ) and the idea of fraternité ( preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action ).

The two really bad ideas that are hovering in the modern world that inhibit our capacity to draw strength from art The first idea is that art should be for art's sake a ridiculous idea an idea that art should live in a hermetic bubble and should not try to do anything with this troubled world.

What was remarkable about this framework was that its principal author, the major superpower of the day, accepted its authority. As US President Harry Truman memorably put it, We all have to recognize no matter how great our strength that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.

More generally, we agree with Obama that in the long run we...cannot keep...safe unless we enlist the power of our most fundamental values, and that we uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right, but because it strengthens us and keeps us safe.