Powerful Quotes

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When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can… — Craig Stone
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a… — Charles Krauthammer
The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our… — Saul Bellow
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us… — Emma Goldman
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. — Karl Marx
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others.… — John Keats
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other,… — Rita Mae Brown
Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image. — Hilton Als
Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that… — Gloria Steinem
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. — Emmet Fox
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a… — Al Franken
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is… — Benjamin Franklin
Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy… — Michael Franti
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing,… — Bill Frist
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. — Robert Frost
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… — Robert Fulghum
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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