Quotes about pow
powerful progress benefits
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. Leon Kass
powerful example cloning
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
powerful blow irritation
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost. Leon Trotsky
powerful europe united-states
The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.
powerful struggle ukraine
Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.
powerful moving
No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do. LeAnn Rimes
powerful liberty weak
Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. Learned Hand
powerful heart first-love
First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.(...) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first. Lauren Weisberger
powerful hate stronger
Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate. Lauren Myracle
powerful organization people
I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos. Lauren Oliver
powerful technology people
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand. Larry Page
power ideas people
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. Larry Wall
power community design
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
powerful men ideas
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. Lajos Kossuth
power advice information
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice. Pablo Picasso
powerful people want
People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do. Paul Sorvino
powerful acceptance dna
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA. Paul Stamets
powerful earth-day arrogance
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. Paul Johnson
powerful past light
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story. Ivan Illich
powerful rights goal
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. Isaiah Berlin
powerful thinking might
One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction. Irvin D. Yalom
power may victim
To be a complete victim may be another source of power. Iris Murdoch
powerful uganda world
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world. Idi Amin
powerful uganda world
I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.
powerful reality myth
A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality. Gloria Naylor
powerful men important
In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen. Gloria Steinem
powerful mean thinking
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 the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.
powerful men order
the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.
powerful nouns adjectives
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
powerful believe fate
... members of a powerful group are raised to believe (however illogically) that whatever affects it will also affect them. On theother hand, members of less powerful groups are raised to believe (however illogically) that each individual can escape the group's fate. Thus, cohesion is encouraged on the one hand, and disunity is fostered on the other.
powerful eye vision
When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful. Giorgio de Chirico
powerful world earth
When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God , not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth , however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I ... what you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue ; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own. Giordano Bruno
powerful people solitude
I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars. Geraldine McCaughrean