There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea…

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

— Victor Hugo

“Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.”

— Cecil Adams

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

— Laozi

Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

— Sri Chinmoy

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

— Karen Tumulty

The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts.

— David Yoho

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

— Manmohan Singh

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

— Daniel Handler

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

— Marcel Proust

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to…

— Stefan Hell

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't…

— Elizabeth Janeway

“Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would…

— Richard Dawkins

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and…

— Katie Kitamura

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

— Marcel Proust