| "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 |
| "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly." »Margaret Atwood |
| "A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful." »Primo Levi |
| "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." »Seneca |
| "Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all." »Theodore Isaac Rubin |
| "Great is truth, and all powerful." »Vulgate |
| "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes." »Jean de La Fontaine |
| "Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them." »Japanese Proverb |
| "The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute." »John P. Grier |
| "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are." »Clive James |
| "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest." »Aesop |
| "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." »Nelson Mandela |
| "Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength." »Saint Francis de Sales |
| "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish." »John Ruskin |
| "Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." »Victor Hugo |
| "Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." »Stuart Stevens |
| "It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful." »Phaedrus |
| "No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." »Albert Einstein |
| "Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want." »Martha Beck |
| "Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect." »Real Live Preacher |
| "Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." »Andrew Brown |
| "Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." »Walt Whitman |
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