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“In the twenty-first century we will create more powerful fictions and more totalitarian religions than in any previous era. With the help of biotechnology and computer algorithms these religions will not only control our minute-by-minute existence, but will be able to shape our bodies, brains and minds, and to create entire virtual worlds complete with hells and heavens.”
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ten years ago we had a very simple yet powerful idea—call many of the greatest thinkers in the world, ask them each to write a chapter sharing their vision for the future of leadership, and put together an edited book titled The Leader of the Future.”
Marshall Goldsmith (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(...) we’re talking about building twenty-first-century companies, some that may be massive wealth creators and powerful in their respective markets. We do think enterprises will look more like networks rather than the vertically integrated hierarchies of the industrial age. As such there is an opportunity to distribute (not redistribute) wealth more democratically.”
Don Tapscott (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should all have access to the mathematical knowledge and tools needed to protect us from arbitrary decisions made by the powerful few in an increasingly math-driven world. Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.”
Edward Frenkel (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Things Specialist Charles N. Wilson Wants You To Know · · · · · 1: Everything I've ever known has been no more than a powerful conviction. 2: Nothing motivates like sex and death and sound effects. 3: Politics is the Enemy. 4: Jesus and Mohammed would probably hang out together.”
Lucius Shepard (1943–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hypocrisy is a luxury of the powerful.”
Jorge Majfud (born 1969) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Debate with Uruguayan presidential candidate Mr. Pedro Bordaberry. Zoom a la noticia, Canal NTN24 (1 July 2014)
“There's the all mighty powerful ones like Mr. Khan — which is a con artist himself, and he uses the death of his son, who's an American soldier, which we respect and honor, and he uses that to go after Trump, which I found very distasteful.”
Paul LePage (born 1948) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Boston radio host . (August 25, 2016)
“Ambiguity as to what factors are responsible for superior (or inferior) performance acts as a powerful block on both imitation and factor mobility.”
Richard Rumelt (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Culture is the personality of an organization. Therefore, culture governs much of how people think, act, interact, with others, and do their work. It is extremely powerful in determining the present and continuing success and the future direction of any organization Culture can literally determine whether a company has a future.”
Don Soderquist (1934–2016) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Soderquist “The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 27.
“Paul refused to enter into patronage relationships with Corinthian elites; the system of patronage is problematic because it destroys the horizontal bonds of the common people—their solidarity with each other—and ties them to the powerful and the wealthy.”
Joerg Rieger (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God in Christ is a different kind of lord who is not in solidarity with the powerful but in solidarity with the lowly. ... This position—at the heart of the new world proclaimed by Paul—directly contradicts the logic of the Roman Empire.”
Joerg Rieger (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives … Animal products are the main culprit in what is killing us. We can absolutely live better lives without them.”
Dean Ornish (born 1953) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).
“I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m grateful for every scar, I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful.”
Beyoncé (born 1981) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beyoncé Talks About Accepting the Way Her Body Wanted to Be Time (August 6, 2018).
“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's just an incredible gift, giving birth. I never felt so empowered, so powerful, so womanly as I did after I gave birth. I felt more feminine than I ever had in my life.”
Vera Farmiga (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Vera Farmiga's New Role: The Gal Who Dumps George Clooney" by Jeanne Wolf at Parade (December 3, 2009)
“The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful [meat lobby].”
Marion Nestle (born 1936) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, in Newsweek (27 May 1991)
“Often it has been that reporter who has most skillfully played the access game — the one who has curried just enough favor with the powerful newsmaker to be smiled upon, without giving up basic credibility and integrity. That’s access journalism. Accountability journalism, by contrast, is often performed off to the side, by those who don’t have to deal with the news provider on a regular basis.”
Margaret Sullivan (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What happens to the state? It probably gets less powerful over time – and in the end its functions are assumed by society. I’ve tried to make this a project usable both by people who see states as useful and those who don’t; you could model an anarchist version and a statist version and try them out. There is probably even a conservative version of postcapitalism, and good luck to it.”
Paul Mason (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A tiger is a powerful, graceful animal simply by doing what a tiger does. This practical, real world approach is what we have lost, and what natural movement can restore.”
Erwan Le Corre (born 1971) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory Ripley (2016). Tao of Sustainability: Cultivate Yourself to Heal the Earth, Three Pines Press.
“Faith is a powerful thing to have in your repertory. ... Certainly, I'd felt despair, sometimes so much that I thought it would be easier to die. But my family and my faith have sustained me until, when I least expected it, life picked me up again.”
Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So how can you truly not care what other people think and be your most powerful Self?”
Jen Sincero (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the very beginning of the first Trump presidency, back in 2017, I posted on Twitter the following thought: “Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims.”
David Frum (born 1960) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories: Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine, The Atlantic (May 14, 2025)
“I have become more and more impressed with the deep underlying singleness of the issue. It is not the tariff or conservation or the currency. It is not the trusts. The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1912, as quoted in The Real Populism Fights Unequal Wealth, by Fred R. Harris, 25 May 1972
“The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country, within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and independent press.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stoicism’s contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism advanced the revolutionary concept of an all-powerful and all-pervasive but non-material God ruling the universe, the theory of Natural Law posited that God’s universe was rational and capable of being grasped by human intelligence.”
Richard Pipes (1923–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The system of constraints that governs the projections and transformations of... bodies in space must long ago have become internalized as a powerful, though largely unconscious, part of our perceptual machinery.”
Roger Shepard (1929–2022) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The mental image." American Psychologist 33 (1978), pp. 125-137, 136.
“Her amber eyes burned into mine with all the hate and loathing she could muster. Underneath, though, she was terrified. Hate and loathing didn't bother me, but fear was a powerful emotion. Fear causes the dog to bite and Roze was one bitch.”
Maria V. Snyder (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free speech is indeed a tool of the powerful, but it is also crucially the language of the powerless. The courageous protests by Iranian women, the #EndSARS protest in Nigeria, where young people rallied against police brutality, the Arab Spring: all wielded speech. Dissent is impossible without the freedom of speech.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Reith Lectures 2022
“Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.”
“I felt wonderfully wicked. I always do when I frustrate overly powerful, responsible-to-no-one types who think all existence was created only for their pleasure and exploitation.”
“When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is in the mind, not in the eye. In our minds, we have an awareness of perfection that leads us on.. .The response to beauty is emotion. Sometimes very subtle emotions of which we are almost not aware, and sometimes our most powerful emotions..”
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mankind has been mesmerized by the narrative of progress and civilization as codified by the first great agrarian kingdoms. As new and powerful societies, they were determined to distinguish themselves as sharply as possible from the populations from which they sprang and that still beckoned and threatened at their fringes.”
James C. Scott (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Race jokes are kind of like orcas: powerful and entertaining, but you put them on display in the wrong environment and people are going to get hurt, and the joke might die. Like this one just did.”
Trevor Noah (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April 12th, 2016, Visible in Bill de Blasio's Questionable Joke, CC.com, 12 April 2016.
“The belief in an all-powerful Being, who loves us and watches over us, gives to the mind great strength to endure misfortune.”
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we want to be free, the women of the 21st century need to stop playing the game. We need to end our wary efforts to believe that our bodies are acceptable and begin to know, with a clear and billiant certainty, that our persons are powerful.”
Laurie Penny (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the Surface. And that's true even though I know very little about it. ... I was only permitted to touch the device while the machine was powered off. ... despite all these unknowns, I'm already deeply smitten. Not because the Surface is so great — though it seems like it might be — but because it represents a new and potentially powerful force in the tech industry.”
Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why I Love Surface in Slate (19 June 2012)
“Attachment is the most powerful force in the universe. We are meant to learn in the context of attachment about what we are attached to, and the things that serve our attachment needs.”
Gordon Neufeld (born 1946) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Keys to Well-being in Students, Presentation to the X NIS International Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, 26 October 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hG_p7sujU)
“God speaks, but always in the voice of the voiceless, the defenceless, the powerless. If the powerful do not hear God in this way, they will not hear God at all.”
Allan Boesak (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Cao Xueqin] has succeeded in turning the concept of world and life as dream into a subtle but powerful theory of fiction that he uses constantly to confound his reader's sense of reality.”
Anthony C. Yu (1938–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Over the past three years, Kim Yo-jong has remained her despotic nation’s chief censor, spokeswoman, mocker and threat-and-malice dispenser. All this makes Kim Yo-jong one of the most powerful leaders in the contemporary world, her nation’s foreign policy at her fingertips, and with unfettered access to her nuclear button-controlling brother.”
Sung-Yoon Lee (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As human beings, we are rational animals, but we are imperfectly rational. We are prone to making intellectual and moral mistakes and capable of behaving grossly unreasonably—especially when deflected by powerful emotions that run contrary to the demands of reasonableness.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's the rich and powerful, by and large, who glamorize immorality, but it's the poor and vulnerable who pay the price.”
Robert P. George (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a veganist is good for your health, it's good for the environment, and it's certainly good for the animals, but it also has a powerful spiritual component. When you begin eating consciously, with compassion and thoughtfulness, you attain a certain lightness and inner peace, a sense of connectedness to the larger world.”
Kathy Freston (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These cases are all psychological manipulation under the guise of assistance. They sell false hope. That's a very powerful product when you’re a person that's desperate.”
Bob Nygaard first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Psychic Freed in Florida Caught Chasing Seattle Spirits, newsmax.com (2 November 2017)
“Love is one of the great mysteries of life. There is nothing more sacred, nothing more mysterious, nothing more powerful. I come back to that – great literature is nearly always full of love, in a very broad sense. ... You come out of the book with a warm feeling.”
John Minford (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That was probably the most truthful thing that Tanvir had said to him yet. Wherever one was in the world, it seemed that it was difficult to bring the rich and powerful to book. It was enough to turn anyone into a communist – as long as it didn’t mean he had to share his cigarettes and beer.”
Shamini Flint (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.”
Milton Mayer (1908–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We know that as soon as our competition is done there’s another Canadian taking their place at the starting line or waiting to race. I think that’s what’s so powerful is that we’re just part of something bigger than us.”
Tessa Virtue (born 1989) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tessa Virtue, Interview with Kristina Rutherford for Sportsnet.ca (January 2018)
“Let my roar be emitted over all the lands. Let my powerful arm, my heroic arm, fall upon all the lands. Let my storm cover the Land.”
Shulgi (died 2045 BC) said by 2045 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To preserve the sense of the 'grey' even in the most powerful green is amazingly difficult and whoever discovers it will be a happy mortal. (translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Gerard Bilders (1838–1865) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter (July 1860) to his maecenas Johannes Kneppelhout; as cited in Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century – 'The Hague School; Introduction', by G. Hermine Marius, transl. A. Teixera de Mattos; publish: The la More Press…