Powerful Quotes

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness"

"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness"

"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration"

David Ricardo, Economist

"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby"

Celine Dion, Musician

"Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess"

A. Philip Randolph, Activist

"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world"

Edward Grey, Politician

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"I have two favorite songs. My first is called 'Dance of The Robe' and it's a very powerful number where she is feeling the pressure from her people to take on the responsibility of leading them"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry"

Bill Owens, Politician

"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned"

Eminem, Musician

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions"

Jim Goad, Author

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film"

Rainer W. Fassbinder

"What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful"

Blaine Lee, Author

"With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

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