Powerful Quotes

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Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of… — Aldous Huxley
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy.… — Thurgood Marshall
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need… — Tim Wise
I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. — Winston Churchill
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. — Lois McMaster Bujold
God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. — William Shakespeare
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as… — Ursula K. Le Guin
To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking… — Lisa Kleypas
I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love… — Jeanette Winterson
He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change… — Sheri L. Dew
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of… — Patricia Hill Collins
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery… — R A Salvatore
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the… — Frank Zappa
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that… — Jim Davis
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound… — Charlotte Bronte
What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know — Jim Rohn
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going… — William Goldman

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