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“Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. In most societies, resources are allocated not by an all-powerful dictator but through the combined actions of millions of households and firms.”
Greg Mankiw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will', The Guardian (June 10, 2013).
“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”
August Spies (1855–1887) first seen 1877 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Kenneth G. Alfers (1993) America's second century: readings in United States history since 1877. p. 43
“The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is it that countries which we call strong" are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every software system needs to have a simple yet powerful organizational philosophy (think of it as the software equivalent of a sound bite that describes the system's architecture)... [A] step in [the] development process is to articulate this architectural framework, so that we might have a stable foundation upon which to evolve the system's function points.”
Grady Booch (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Because long-held internalized views and attitudes appear especially powerful in death, the daily practice should include body, speech, and mind, so that the teachings slide from the head to the heart as fast as possible. It is certain and a real gift that the Buddhist methods will help in both this life and afterward.”
Lama Ole Nydahl (1941–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Naturally these penalties were applicable only to private citizens, not military commanders or government executives. The powerful are jealous of their toys.”
Richard Morgan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the heart of the matter... our technologies have become more powerful than our theories... We can do with technology what we cannot do with science.”
Paul Cilliers (1956–2011) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 1-2; as cited by David Byrne (1999) in: "Complexity and Postmodernism: Book Review" in JASSS Vol 2 (2)
“What we have seen is that while the average person is working longer hours for lower wages, we have seen a huge increase in income and wealth inequality, which is now reaching obscene levels. This is a rigged economy, which works for the rich and the powerful, and is not working for ordinary Americans … You know, this country just does not belong to a handful of billionaires.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At a time when too many Americans are giving up on democracy, now is the time to attempt to restore faith in our government. Now is the time for Congress to have the courage to take on the lobbyists and powerful special interests and show the American people that our government can work for them, and not just the 1%. Let’s do it.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people — thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption — is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can assure the Right Honorable Gentleman that in this house I see myself as a colossal god-king, a powerful beast from another realm, blessed with the powers of destruction, and I will run through the Palace of Westminster, lashing at all I encounter with the metal prong-whips. And all shall perish.”
Tristram Hunt (born 1974) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the House of Commons, Thu 21 Apr 2016; reported in The Daily Telegraph, Fri 21 April 2016, p. 8.
“I thought about reaching out with my authorial hand and snatching her from that awful situation. I thought about it and I agonized over it. But to me, that felt dishonest and emotionally manipulative. This was the end she had chosen, and I felt she had earned an ending that was as powerful as she was.”
Veronica Roth (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was excited by the story of Yayati. This exchange of ages between the father and the son, which seemed to be terribly powerful and terribly modern. At the same time I was reading a lot of Sartre and the Existentialist. This consistent harping on responsibility which the Existentialist indulge in suddenly seemed to link up with the story of Yayati.”
Girish Raghunath Karnad (1938–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether an atom bomb is necessary or not, in this world if you want to be recognized, if you don’t want to be kicked about, you have to be powerful both militarily and economically.”
Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview With The Field Marshal - Apr 03, 2016,
“The vanity held by many of us puny humans tends to bolster a belief that we control our own destiny within the universe, or are even masters of our own climate control. Recent events such as the PDO shift remind us that the slow but powerful forces of nature remain in control.”
Anthony Watts (born 1958) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A reminder to us flyspecks on an elephant's butt, wattsupwiththat.com, May 7, 2008.
“I dream of India becoming one of four most powerful economies of the world. I believe this dream can be made a reality within our life times.”
Mukesh Ambani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[moot issue is that ] we should talk about is not just lessons in leadership or what the leaders need to do today but what can India do to bring those leaders back to India, so India itself can become an even more powerful economy going forward.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Atoms were originally proposed as an idea. Although their presence was proved by various means, people did not think that they could see them directly. This was so until recently. We are now able to directly see atoms by employing powerful microscopic techniques.”
C. N. Ramachandra Rao (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All international laws are made by big, powerful countries but applied only on weaker ones like ours.”
Mahinda Rajapaksa (born 1945) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Hindustan Times, September 17, 2013.
“And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”
Kate DiCamillo (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Placed at a maritime coign of vantage upon the flank of Asia, precisely analogous to that occupied by Great Britain on the flank of Europe, exercising a powerful influence over the adjoining continent, but not necessarily involved in its responsibilities, she [Japan] sets before herself the supreme ambition of becoming, on a smaller scale, the Britain of the Far East.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Powerful empires existed and flourished here while Englishmen were still wandering painted in the woods, and when the British Colonies were wilderness and jungle; and India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy, and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.”
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the state banquet in Delhi (1 January 1903), quoted in Speeches by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor General of India. Vol. III. 1902–1904 (1904), p. 99
“That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world. We see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.”
Anderson Cooper (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN (5 November 2020).
“Our place is there where pointed out by politics, that means by the side of Germany and Italy. We determined our place in the time already when Germany had not been yet one of the most powerful world superpowers and when Italy had just eneterd the path of invicible fascism.”
János Esterházy (1901–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there is an all-powerful and loving God in this world, why is there so much excruciating pain and unspeakable suffering? The problem of suffering has haunted me for a very long time. It was what made me begin to think about religion when I was young, and it was what led me to question my faith when I was older. Ultimately, it was the reason I lost my faith.”
Bart D. Ehrman (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
Núria Añó (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“a network of powerful bureaucracies”
Kenneth Minogue (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“… the Union can grow powerful only by fostering the manufacturing interest. This, Sir, I think the true American political economy.”
Friedrich List (1789–1846) said by 1846 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.”
Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stephen Tobolowsky in a Facebook comment on June 16, 2014.
“The one whom I honor most of all is Rembrandt. Rubens and Velasquez painted better than Rembrandt, but he was the greatest of all painters because he was most powerful humanly. His grasp of all things was from within out. He had something that surpassed all other painters-a great humanity. He is perhaps the only one who could have painted the Christ.”
Fritz von Uhde (1848–1911) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Gustav Stickley (1911). The Craftsman, Volume 20. United Crafts, p. 631
“[U]niversities... have gradually allowed to fall into disuse the powerful means which they possess of rousing the pupil to exertion, and have been too often content to act as mere oral instruments of information...”
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Dalits are a powerful secular force. Then, the backward forces can provide an effective bulwark along with the minorities against the forces of coramunalism. Because what has been established in the past half a century is the upper caste Hindu raj, depriving the backwards and the minorities.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...now, the new class of landlords — they may not be landlords but practically they are — and therefore a new class of people have come up, powerful politically and socially, and it has become very difficult to implement any land reforms today, because of that.”
K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adult franchise is the most powerful instrument devised by man for breaking down social and economic injustice and destroying barriers of caste, creed and religion. It has given the right to the people to choose a government through the democratic process of elections.”
R. Venkataraman (1910–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the 1970s I even got to meet Kurt Gödel a few times. The king of the logicians. Gödel once told me, “The a priori is very powerful.” By this he meant that pure logic can take you farther than you might believe possible.”
Rudy Rucker (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the yoga teacher B.K.S Iyengar (2001(2): 47) writes, “The consciousness is like a chariot yoked to a team of powerful horses. One of them is breath (prånå), the other is desire (våsanå),” he simply builds on the same tradition.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: B.K.S Iyengar in Danino, M. (2019). Demilitarizing the Rigveda: a scrutiny of Vedic horses, chariots and warfare., STUDIES IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Soci…
“The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.”
Desmond Morris (1928–2026) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in William Johnson, Rose-Tinted Menagerie (1990), p. 10
“At first sight, it is surprising that religion has been so successful, but its extreme potency is simply a measure of the strength of our fundamental biological tendency, inherited directly from our monkey and ape ancestors, to submit ourselves to an all-powerful, dominant member of the group.”
Desmond Morris (1928–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unfortunately, because we are so powerful and so successful when compared with other animals, we find the contemplation of our humble origins somehow offensive, so that I do not expect to be thanked for what I have done. Our climb to the top has been a get-rich-quick story, and, like all nouveaux riches, we are very sensitive about our background. We are also in constant danger of betraying it.”
Desmond Morris (1928–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kantian liberals thus avoid affirming a conception of the good by affirming instead the priority of the right, which depends in turn on a picture of the self given prior to its ends. But how plausible is this self-conception? Despite its powerful appeal, the image of the unencumbered self is flawed.”
Michael Sandel (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This book is written in the conviction that economics is a powerful tool for analyzing a vast range of legal questions but that most lawyers and law students-even very bright ones-have difficulty connecting economic principles to concrete legal problems.”
Richard Posner (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Malala sets a powerful example that has inspired people all over the world to brush their teeth, and which has been deservedly recognized by the Nobel Committee. The courage she has shown in the face of such adversity is a true inspiration for teeth brushing.”
Salil Shetty (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Churchill was 'very keen, able, and broad-minded' and a 'powerful backer', but warned that his weakness was being 'too apt to make up his mind without sufficient knowledge'.”
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter written to the High Commissioner of Palestine, Sir Herbert Samuel, on February 5, 1921, as Churchill was preparing to take over the Colonial Office on Milner's retirement. From Martin Gilbert's "Winston Chur…
“An efficient marriage market develops ‘‘shadow’’ prices to guide participants to marriages that will maximize their expected well-being. These prices, central to the analysis in this chapter and the subsequent one, are responsible for the more powerful implications found in these chapters than in traditional discussions of marriage. Some other approaches are evaluated in Chapter 4.”
Gary Becker (1930–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Early in the last century, the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike the stable heart of the continent rattled the Reelfoot Rift.”
Shawna Vogel wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source