Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

Jose Mujica

Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the money to buy the goods they produce. It's no mystery - the less poverty, the more commerce. The most important investment we can make is in human resources.

Jose Marti

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Jose Mourinho

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jordan Peele

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Jonathan Zittrain

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

Kevin Spacey

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Kevin Spacey

Secret Cinema has created a new way of experiencing film. The fusion of film and theatre allows for a much more powerful experience and adds an incredibly unique dimension for the audience. It certainly did for me. I was blown away

Kenneth Kaunda

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.

Kelley Armstrong

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Your full potential can only be awaken by the spirit of a powerful and positive attitude.

Jimmy Carter

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

Jimmy Carter

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

Jimmy Carter

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Jimmy Carter

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

Jimmy Carter

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

John C. Calhoun

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.

James Thurber

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

James Surowiecki

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices.

James Patterson

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

James Nachtwey

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.

James Mercer

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

James McAvoy

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

James McAvoy

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

James Madison

Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.

James Madison

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

Novak Djokovic

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

Novalis

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Novalis

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.