Powerful Quotes

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There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a… — Enos Mills
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through… — Ronald Steel
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled… — John F. Kennedy
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud… — Jean de la Bruyere
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore de Balzac
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted… — August Strindberg
I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a… — Hunter S. Thompson
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early… — Arthur Ashe
The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren’t the problem; they’re the solution. — Christiane Northrup
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

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