Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
~ Stephen Kinzer
When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.
~ Rob Reiner
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
~ Kathryn Stockett
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
~ J. Tillman
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
~ Andrew Brown
Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
~ Spencer Bachus
Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
~ Ramez Naam
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
~ Clive James
As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.
~ Shiv Nadar
AI might be a powerful technology, but things won't get better simply by adding AI.
~ Vivienne Ming
Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.
~ Noam Chomsky
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~ Andrew Jackson
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
~ Wilhelm Reich
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
~ Dorothy Day
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.
~ Christine Gregoire
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
~ Nicholas Kristof
If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.
~ Martin Jacques
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.
~ Alex Steffen
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
~ Carlos Santana
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
~ Arthur Henderson
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
~ Kage Baker
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.
~ Henry Cloud
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
~ Marvin Sapp
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
~ Rita Dove
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
~ Robert Morgan
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.
~ John Hurt
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
~ Pete Hamill
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
~ Justin Trudeau
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.
~ Scilla Elworthy
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
~ Joyce Meyer
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.
~ Jill Scott
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
The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
~ Stephen Hawking
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~ Ivan Turgenev
