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“Clearly, Macaulay saw education as the most powerful (and cheapest) counter-revolutionary tool. ...Regrettably, few have bothered to study or theorise about Western education as a counter-revolutionary tool.”
C. K. Raju (born 1954) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Decolonising Hard Sciences Frontier Vol. 46, No. 7, Aug 25-31, 2013
“Now that we've truly lived marriage, seen that it’s not only happy moments and butterflies, renewing our vows feels even more powerful. Saying those words again, this time with deeper understanding and intention, gives them so much more meaning,”
Pauleen Luna (born 1988) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IN PHOTOS: Vic Sotto, Pauleen Luna renew vows in star-studded event, ABS-CBN News, 2 February 2026.
“So what? Is not Christian socialism the most powerful explosive charge against bourgeois society, which is based on the idea of confrontation and the reality of luxury, enjoyment, pleasure, vain and superfluous things? When Leo XIII praises the worker, he always takes as his example “the frugal and well-behaved worker”. (I, III; p. 57)”
Giovanni Spadolini (1925–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To record the patriotic song Ako Ay Pilipino, a powerful anthem that expresses the deep pride of being Filipino. The song resonated with people from all walks of life and, over time, became like a second national anthem, embraced by Filipinos regardless of political affiliation.”
Kuh Ledesma (born 1955) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kuh Ledesma at 70: A look back on the OPM icon’s career-defining moments, Jerry Donato - The Philippine Star 29 March 2025.
“It has been said by some that Essenism gave rise to the Kabbalists and the Gnostics: the Essenes, who adapted Christianity to their old doctrines, became Gnostics: The Essenes who remained Jews became Kabbalists: thus Essenism died, giving birth to these two powerful twins: Kabbalah and Gnosticism.”
Ulisse Bacci (1846–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peer influence is a powerful tool. It’s through peer-led platforms like this that young people feel safe enough to open up about their experiences. Unfortunately, much of what they know today is tainted by misinformation, and that’s affecting the quality of our youth.”
Phiona Nyamutoro wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just icy roads and a powerful reminder that God’s hand is real and present.”
Bangs Garcia (born 1987) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bangs Garcia, kids safe after car ‘nearly crashed’ due to icy roads in UK, By: Anne Pasajol INQUIRER.net 8 January 2026.
“Once upon a time, the heavens were populated by Deities whom we now consider to be more or less naive human projections. But for centuries, indeed for millennia, they appeared more powerful than men, if not their very creators. There is a Latin word that aptly describes this superiority: ‘'superstitio’'. (p. 18)”
Giulio Giorello (1945–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The laws of probability are mighty powerful, and they never sleep. If this were more widely understood there’d be a lot less crowing about good luck, and a lot less guilt about bad luck. And we’d have a more civilized world. Some things really do happen by chance, and there is little we can do to change that.”
Harold Lewis (1923–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jobs is a very powerful tool to make lives better. Its impact is generational – parents, children, relatives of people who get better jobs, and the communities they live, all benefit.”
Olalekan Olude wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crowdsourcing is a powerful way to build datasets that can support research.”
Temiloluwa Prioleau wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But Bruno's agreement with Parmenides is also agreement with Heraclitus, for whom, Bruno recalls, all things are One. Just as episteme is about to abandon its faith in the immediate ability of thought to grasp the deepest meaning of truth, that faith finds one of its most powerful and grandiose expressions in Bruno's philosophy.”
Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is mostly because we have a powerful plant pathology community and that most plant diseases are caused by fungi.”
Mike Wingfield (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pippo was powerful, demanding and competent. If he didn't like one of the arrangements, we would go back and write until late at night. [The Sanremo Festival] was his home: just think, one morning I caught him moving a flower box at the theatre entrance.”
Peppe Vessicchio (1956–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.”
Elizabeth Janeway (1913–2005) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study in Social Mythology (New York: William Morrow and Co, 1971) ch. 1, p. 7
“With Fantozzi, I tried to recount the adventure of those who live in that part of life that everyone (except the children of the powerful) goes through or has gone through: the moment when you are under someone else's thumb. Many come out of it with honor, many went through it at twenty, others at thirty, many remain there forever, and they are the majority. Fantozzi is one of them.”
Paolo Villaggio (1932–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The buffalo's powerful head darkening the yellow grass, like the lion's imperative roar and the elephant's long, somnambulistic stride, has more of the quintessential Africa in it for me than any other manifestation of all the scores of animals that I know and love.”
Laurens van der Post (1906–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most powerful force in nature is the steady, quiet drip of persistence.”
Jim Carroll (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About Donald Trump) We laugh at his hair, but we don’t listen closely enough to what he says. Is it possible that none of us are concerned that this rather unbalanced gentleman might become president of the most powerful nation in the world? That he might have the codes to launch nuclear missiles wherever he pleases and that he might influence the global economy?”
Giancarlo Magalli (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I walked the Miss Universe stage, I wore my pharmacist license as proudly as my sash. Young girls need to see that beauty and brains aren't opposites—they're powerful partners. There's room for us in labs, in classrooms, and on every stage.”
Janine Tugonon (born 1989) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women in Science Forum, Department of Science and Technology Philippines (March 8, 2024)
“Education is a powerful tool to guide them, to guide our future to a better path, to make one person productive, beneficial to one society, and have a purpose in life.”
Efren Peñaflorida (born 1981) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his motivational talk "The Power of One!" (May 2015)
“Education and law are powerful tools to protect rights and promote equality.”
Beatriz Merino (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is necessary to take into account the politics of your time, the eternal struggle against intolerance, in favor of human rights and of less inequality between rich and poor countries. In this whole context, art and photography are very powerful platforms of resistance.”
Joaquim Paiva (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his dæmon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their conscience!”
Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, in which sagacity is blended with nobility, and a body of great symmetry, combining, one might say, the agility of the with the strength of the .”
William Gordon Stables (1840–1910) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (428 pages; 3rd edition 1883)
“Don't underestimate a determined fourteen-year-old girl. They're the most powerful thing on earth.”
Cailee Spaeny (born 1998) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sobrevilla, Savannah (November 2, 2023). "V145: It's Time For Cailee Spaeny". V.
“The Bantu had iron tools and a set of domesticated plants adapted to Africa, which together gave them a pretty powerful advantage over the hunter-gatherers they encountered.”
Henry Harpending (1944–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am writing from within a cultural space in which it is music, and not literature, that is the center of activity, in a way that very few people besides Antonin Artaud would have claimed sixty years ago. I am not saying this in order to use the new to terrorize the old, but because I feel in my heart that it's true, when I examine what has been most valuable, most powerful to me.”
Marcus Boon (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] my firm belief that a revolution (a grand-sounding word) can only be carried out by those who have the devil in them. And those who have the devil in them are not afraid of the word ' terrorism' , because they want, with all their might, for the powerful to live in terror at least as much as their victims, the 'wretched of the earth'.”
Alfredo Cospito (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Following the Fastweb scandal over the 2006 vote] Repealing the law would be a disgrace, a real act of self-destruction, and a way of making Italy less powerful on the global stage, both politically and economically.”
Mirko Tremaglia (1926–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a kind of inferiority complex: today, science is so powerful that people want explanations for everything, and religion finds itself in a strange position. We are witnessing the rebirth of a form of religiosity that probably annoys Benedict XVI a great deal. The Church has now lost the body of truth it claimed to possess.”
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He wasn’t out to cheat the universe of its plan for some sort of personal gain; he was trying to save his wife. There aren’t a lot of things in life powerful enough to cause a man of faith to go against what he saw as the wishes of his creator, but love certainly qualifies.”
Alex Shvartsman (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“generally speaking, the beauty of us all comes down to our souls. And a voice is a powerful example of what the soul is going to be. I think the voice is the closest thing we can experience to a soul in its purest form.”
Melody Gardot (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Representation is such a powerful thing because it gives light, hope, a sense of belonging, and connection to those who have long fought for their flags and culture to be raised high. This is for the underdogs, for Filipinos who haven't always been taken seriously, for the young dreamers, and for the Filipino heart that is pure and kind.”
Aiah (born 2001) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BINI Aiah shares a touching message from a fan following historic Coachella debut ABSCBN, 15 April 2026
“At ten o'clock Hitler's oratory comes through the radio. Everyone gathers at the well-side. I do not understand German, but Hitler's powerful voice and the thunderous applause that arises at every pause make me feel he is truly an orator.”
Inejirō Asanuma (1898–1960) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1 September 1939, Inter-Parliamentary Union Delegation Travel Diary to the U.S. and Europe — 30 June to 2 October 1939 — Transcription and Commentary, trans. from Japanese. In Dōshisha Hōgaku (Doshisha Law Review), Vol.…
“He has been a powerful leader of the farmer's Union in Tohoku district. He is one of pioneer christian socialist worker in northern Japan. Most northern farmer still hope him back to the democratic front. I hope so too.”
Inejirō Asanuma (1898–1960) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Inejirō Asanuma about Yōnosuke Kikuchi, 25 April 1948
“You are more powerful than what happened to you. (Introduction)”
Staci Haines wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“. . . may the gods grant you all that you desire in your heart, and may they bestow on you a husband, a house, and good harmony of minds; there is nothing better or more powerful than this, when a man and his wife keep house in sympathy of mind — a great grief to their enemies, but a joy to those who wish them well; and they themselves are highly esteemed.”
Anthony Verity (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our art continues to live, for not only is it part and parcel of us, it can be a powerful factor in combining the best part of Indian culture into the fabric of a truly Canadian art form.”
Ellen Neel (1916–1966) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at the 1948 Conference of Native Indian Affairs, as quoted in
“Feasting is not only a way to meet physical and emotional needs. It’s also a powerful tool for making disciples.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith Through Feasting, One Meal at a Time (2017), Tyndale Momentum. p. 6.
“It is not even so virtuous to suddenly discover that the "politics of the powerful" has always had its price and has always been the subject of negotiations and business, often bad business. It was therefore necessary to criticise that policy in itself and not so much those deals. Otherwise, only the kind of business will change, but not the politics.”
Sergio Cusani (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You might say that the North won the war and the South won the peace. But that’s not entirely accurate. The North won progress. The South won heritage. The North won the future. The South won the past. And it is not clear at all which is more powerful.”
Stephen Marche (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So many authors have shaped my life through their books, and I felt it was time to give back. Many of those authors are not Nigerians, and I began to realize how powerful it would be for people here—people who have walked in my shoes—to read a story that reflects their own realities.”
Tope Mark-Odigie wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always seen fuji music as powerful, expressive, and full of life. Blending that with gospel was my way of showing that worship doesn’t have to be quiet or conventional. It can be vibrant, local, and deeply spiritual all at once.”
Mike Abdul (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[O]ur current studio is dealing with the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh. ...Mud is often used in therapies... to overcome trauma... [W]hile the process... is forming community, it's healing... You feel powerful again, because... when you build the house, you feel empowered... [T]hat's... what we're trying... to contribute...”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[Architecture|[A]rchitecture]] is a [very powerful] tool to improve lives...”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An excessively powerful centre does not equate with national unity. If anything, it has made our unity more fragile, our government more unstable and our country more unsafe.”
Atiku Abubakar (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is more powerful in a democracy than the voice of the people. Every vote cast is a statement of hope, responsibility and belief in the future we want to build together.”
Musalia Mudavadi (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is a powerful tool for starting conversations that people are often afraid to have.”
Darlyne Komukama (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
Pierre Moukoko Mbonjo (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source