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“People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential—the healthy, the fit, and the powerful. The consequences of this fact, which goes under the name of sexual selection, are bizarre in the extreme.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s easy, it’s powerful.”
Ross Mintzer (born 1987) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (About "Bitcoin") Interviewed in "How Bitcoin Helps Afghan Girls Achieve Financial Freedom" by Tanaya Macheel for Coindesk (7 June 2014)
“If the powerful hormone vasopressin, or ADH, is injected into the blood, the body will retain water. If ADH is injected into the ventricle the opposite happens: the body loses water.”
Richard Bergland wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hayek possessed a towering intellect. At the same time, his intelligence was as much brittle as it was powerful.”
Alan O. Ebenstein (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God gives his servant no source of strength more powerful for him than when He leads him to humiliate himself.”
Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796–861) said by 861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fate suggests submission to the circumstances of life; destiny suggests active engagement. The former implies some all-powerful force or figure to whose will we must submit. The latter implies that each of us is a manifestation of one of the infinite aspects of creation, whose fullest expression depends in some small but necessary way on our day-to-day, moment-to-moment decisions.”
Fenton Johnson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”
Geoffrey West (born 1940) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From: Joao Medeiros. "The city in numbers: An equation that explains urban life," in wired.co.uk/magazine 29 March 2011.
“Twentieth-century paleontologists have fallen into the bad habit of reconstructing the dinosaurs' life functions by using crocodiles as a living model. But the earliest researchers of the nineteenth century proved beyond a doubt that the dinosaurs' powerful hind limbs must have operated like the limbs of gigantic birds.”
Robert T. Bakker (born 1945) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dinosaur Heresies: A Revolutionary View of Dinosaurs (1986), Longman Scientific & Technical, p. 20
“Tyrannosaurus rex did not have 6-to-8-inch serrated teeth and an arc of D-cross-sectioned teeth set in a massive, powerful skull just to consume rotting carcasses! These were killing tools. In sharp contrast are the weak beaks and feet of vultures and condors- the only true living scavengers.”
Gregory Scott Paul (born 1954) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 33
“They are the basic mechanism of control of the external environment available to managers and entrepreneurs. Organizational fields are not generally benign and cooperative arrangements held in place by a sense of duty or honor the rhetoric and ideology of their proponents might lead one to think so. Instead, they are set up to benefit their most powerful members.”
Neil Fligstein (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics presents us with a powerful, and not necessarily complex, set of analytical tools that can be used to look back and explain why events unfolded the way they did; to look around and make sense of the world; and to look forward so that we can anticipate the effects of major policy changes. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.”
Charles Wheelan (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today is my last full day at the ocean. ...Perfection is not only for the rich, the supremely talented, the powerful. It is also available to me.”
Michael Scott Gallegos first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Encouraging Notes of Fog" (Sep 21, 2014)
“I loved these compliments, which he lobbed at me like popcorn at a pigeon. I felt silly for craving his attention and powerful because he had noticed me. I bounced between those extremes, every other heartbeat, laying down hope one stratum at a time. The fact that he was all wrong––married, my boss, a flirt––gave me a perverse desire to make it right.”
Andrea Lewis (writer) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tierra Blanca" Bryant Literary Review, Vol. 11 (2010)
“Blood-brotherhood is one recurring cultural solution to the problem of recognizing powerful emotional bonds between men that avoids effeminizing comparisons to romantic courtship and affirms the masculinity of the men involved.”
Jack Donovan (born 1974) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blood-Brotherhood and Other Rites of Male Alliance (2009).
“Anyone who dares that nation gets a befitting reply. People across the world learn from Israel the art of doing agricultural and vegetable farming. On the contrary, India has 5,000 km land, population in crores, powerful leaders but Israel has marched way ahead of us.”
Mohan Bhagwat (born 1950) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Israel, as quoted in "Justifying 'Hindu Rashtra' Mohan Bhagwat quotes Tagore", DNA India (18 January 2015).
“People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing,”
Jim Belushi (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Rick Kogan. "Belushis: Funny is in their bones: Jim, son Robert and stand-up Kyle Lane team up to create intimate Comedy Bar on Ontario Street," in: The Chicago Tribune, October 26, 2012.
“Einstein showed us that the Universe might contain a mysterious form of vacuum energy. ...Last year, two teams of astronomers used Earth's most powerful telescopes... to gather persuasive evidence for the reality of the cosmic vacuum energy. Its effects are dramatic. It is accelerating the expansion of the Universe.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.”
Susan Howatch (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In rave cases, if the sun be behind the observer, the distant land may catch a powerful ray of sunlight, whilst the clouds overhanging it may remain in shadow, and hence light buildings, yellow cornfields, etc., may appear lighter than the distant clouds, but they at the same time gain in an appearance of nearness.”
Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the rush to "develop" and use the legacy 4.6 billion years in the making, we have struck the earth like a slow-motion comet, wielding powerful new forces of change, rivaling and compounding the impact of natural storms, volcanoes, earthquakes, disease, fires-even, it now seems, nudging the grand and gradual planetary processes that cause ice ages to come and go.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear, that unknowable and all-powerful enemy, has invaded us all, like a secret army of shadows.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fear is a powerful enemy, but a useful friend.”
Nick Drake (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing that strikes [one] in Cézanne is not apples, but balance of tones. With elements drawn from nature, what did [Cézanne] attempt? To create, to arouse powerful feeling, to awaken in the hearts of men that which is eternal in men.”
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a writing of Maillol, quoted in 'Aristide Maillol', ed. Andrew C. Ritchie, Albright Art Gallery N Y 1945, p. 31; as quoted by Angelo Carnafa, in 'A sculpture of interior Solitude', Associated University Presse, 1999,…
“No powerful political actor had set out to destroy the American political system itself — until, that is, Trump won the Republican nomination. He was probably the first major party nominee who ran not for president but for autocrat. And he won.”
Masha Gessen (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead (US)/Granta (UK), 2020), p. 119
“Every entering mind-mass excites all related mind-masses and this excitation is the more powerful the more insignificant the diversity of their inner states (quality).”
Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful , delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Poetry' September 1995
“When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The recent spate of disasters has translated into such spectacular profits that many people around the world have come to the same conclusion: the rich and powerful must be deliberately causing the catastrophes so that they can exploit them. (p426)”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Climate justice economic demands] represent nothing less than the unfinished business of the most powerful liberation movements of the past two centuries, from civil rights to feminism to Indigenous sovereignty. … Such is the promise of a Marshall Plan for the Earth. p. 458”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of obligation is rationally unstable without the accompanying idea of a sufficiently good and powerful obligator to give the command and sustain the order in which the command is observed.”
John E. Hare (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“in terms of being immigrants, especially from a place like Haiti, when we see — you know, we see the cholera, we see the earthquake. I think people forget that there’s also this wonderful and powerful history of revolt, of resilience, of resistance, and this wonderful art that’s followed in its wake that has this great beauty to offer to the world.”
Edwidge Danticat (born 1969) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: interview with Democracy Now (2010)
“The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Advertising to Kids" (October 23, 2006).
“The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Global Warming -- Or Not -- Online", 2Blowhards (April 13, 2007).
“For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists […] are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hillary fires back", Unqualified Reservations (June 1, 2007).
“The usual pattern is that tyrannies depend on supporters whose lawlessness they have to ignore, and whose depredations they are not powerful enough to formalize.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Democracy as an adaptive fiction" (August 5, 2007).
“Man must smash to bits his stolen, contrived Christian faith through powerful, enormous suffering of the heart, through an amazement that cannot be rejected. Through this, man becomes very small and despicable in his own eyes.”
Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525) first seen 1524 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Special Exposure of False Faith" (1524)
“God despises the powerful and the mighty, the likes of Herod, Caiaphas, and Annas, and he accepts for his service the small, like Mary, Zechariah, and Elizabeth. For that is God's way of working , and down to the present day he does not act otherwise.”
Thomas Müntzer (1489–1525) first seen 1524 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Special Exposure of False Faith" (1524)
“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: `I will give you this powerful machine, it will answer any question you like. All you need to do is give me your soul: give up geometry and you will have this marvellous machine.”
Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Radicalisation thrives on economic insecurity and exclusion. To create stakeholders in a peaceful world, people need opportunities to fulfil their potential and build good lives. Helping them is a powerful message of respect.”
Abdullah II of Jordan (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As you become authentically powerful, you become the authority in your life.”
Gary Zukav (born 1942) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gary Zukav, Official social media (2021).
“That the universe has organized its own self-awareness – is for me powerful evidence that there is 'something going on' behind it all. The impression of design is overwhelming. Science may explain all the processes whereby the universe evolves its own destiny, but that still leaves room for there to be a meaning behind existence.”
Paul Davies (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lovers feel that they are content looking at each other from a distance. The repulsiveness caused by heat between them, is more powerful than all cravings for love and lust.”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Constrained by habits and acculturalization, we have less choice than we imagine. Many apparently momentous decisions were actually determined within us long ago. In the long run, the most powerful choice we can make is where to focus our attention. Attention is healing. Attention is the bridge in relationship. And attention facilitates change and learning.”
Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles Eisenstein, Oral presentation in Baltimore, MD March 2012
“How much freer and happier we would feel, and how much more powerful we would be, if only we stopped struggling against the grain of our natural gifts and inclinations, stopped trying to be what we are not, and instead used willpower to stay true to an exciting and joyful life purpose.”
Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diets and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self (2003)
“History will remember me as the most powerful puncher that rambled through divisions like the Nazi divisions did France, Belgium & the lowlanders. Ducking me and running away to Dunkirk makes you a coward. Until someone stands up to my fistic tyranny I am the one and only dictator.”
Ali Raymi (1973–2015) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comment from Facebook account to FightNews (10 September 2014)
“The most powerful way of being able to listen to your own intuition is by being silent. Find a quiet space, slow down and calm your mind. Your goal is to eliminate all that noise going through your head – all those thoughts that appear from nowhere.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur. Anxiety increases, and in order to obliterate the anxiety, people turn to extreme sex, violence, and even murder.”
Ryu Murakami (1952–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...four very powerful corporate lobbies have repeatedly come out on top and turned our democracy into what might more accurately be called a corporatocracy.”
Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.”
Howard Gardner (born 1943) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Howard Gardner, cited in: Richard L. Daft (2014), The Leadership Experience, p. 273
“These [polytheistic] religions understood the world to be controlled by... powerful gods... Humans could appeal to these... to bring rain, victory... health.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source