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“Teachers are a powerful force.”
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This conviction shows that even the most powerful rulers can be held accountable for their crimes.”
Delphine Djiraibe (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your King may be powerful—a brother I'll be— But vassal to none on the land or the sea!”
Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) said by 1923 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole expressed the complexity, the difficulty, the arrogance, the insolence, the ego, the whole je ne sais quoi of the French, their smug, prosperous country, their easy treachery, their utter lack of conscience, their powerful sense of entitlement.”
Stephen Hunter (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The powerful energy inherent in art should be channeled towards bringing positive change and Utopia in our society.”
Jelili Atiku (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Graffiti, like photography is a form of visual communication. It is a vehicle which informs society about the range of socio-political issues that affect us; it gets people's messages across in a, public, 'in your face' way; it evokes powerful emotion. To me, it is more than merely a visual message...it is poetry...”
Nontsikelelo Veleko (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you belong to a minority, you start believing that you're vulnerable, that the powerful can eat you up because even though your culture exists, it doesn't have the means to develop and survive.”
Idir (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t see such things as important. I know the child we have together is more powerful than ring, marriage, customs and all that. My focus is how to cater for my wife and child in a responsible way.”
Wanlov the Kubolor (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Photography is a powerful tool. It has enabled me to share the realities of smaller, more intimate narratives that project onto the larger map that is South African history,”
Lindokuhle Sobekwa (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is very powerful and I did not understand the extent of this until recently”
Sungi Mlengeya (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Media is a very powerful tool, It is the media that turned me into today's Ali Kiba. I never used to sleep without a radio which I was gutted by my dad.”
“Dissatisfaction is a powerful engine, it pushes us to never rest on our achievements”
Soly Cisse (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a photographer is a very powerful place to be, as you’re engaged in social engineering, where you can set the trend and decide what is in and what is out.”
Kelechi Amadi-Obi (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the early stage of my career, I made it a point to investigate what the standing of this profession is globally, and I realized that being a photographer was a very powerful place to be.”
Kelechi Amadi-Obi (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in a powerful God – He’s shown me He’s faithfulness, greatness, day-in and day-out. I mean, a boy from Cape Town that basically started off with nothing, and worked myself all the way up. It’s a testimony to each and every South African out there, to say that ‘If he can do it, we can do it’.”
Wayde van Niekerk (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He died when I was four, but I recall him tossing me about with those powerful arms, He was just 60 when he died in 1996. He was very fit, and the week before he died he had run a marathon.”
Pieter-Steph du Toit (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But as I prayed, my bad days became less and my good days become more. Love is powerful. I’m not a silly woman. I’m not a woman lacking discernment. But I had to understand what his responsibility was and what my responsibility was. I would have been known this if I was paying more attention to my husband.”
Tina Campbell (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a good starter, short, compact, powerful and explosive. I’m probably built for indoors.”
Gail Devers (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The novels of Hugo are powerful, filled with characters leaping out of the page, figurines of a secular nativity scene, of a profane representation on the sacredness of earthly life, childhood, evil, justice, love, the men of God. (p. 41)”
Corrado Augias (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a graduate of Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU in Atlanta. Going there really shaped how I view community. Being surrounded by Black excellence and pride is such a powerful experience. It teaches you that things often mean more than how they appear on the surface—how you carry yourself, how you uplift others and how you give back when you have a voice and a platform.”
Taylor Polidore (born 1993) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taylor Polidore Williams on the Skin-Care Ritual That Helps Her Leave Heavy Roles Behind;By Liz Ritter on Mar 9, 2026
“We must... call attention to the construction of arches and s in the Arabian epoch, and that of the Mussulman in Persia.. where a new and powerful civilization was already developed... where the n left the trail of his ceramic work...”
Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like Nelson Mandela said, “ education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.”
Farhaan Sayanvala (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Henry restructured the functions of the council to ensure that his natural aristocratic councillors (in their capacity as powerful local lords) were monitored by a smaller team of specialist officials accountable to the king directly.”
Sean Cunningham (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Silence and restraint in a song can be powerful, too.”
Clara Benin (born 1994) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/570409/clara-benin-new-ep-really-got-me-thinking/ Why Clara Benin finds happy songs harder to write, Written by: Allan Policarpio 2 May 2026.]
“Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.”
Albert Einstein (disputed) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Snopes article concluded that its status was uncertain, while this post from The Quote Investigator concludes it is most likely a false attribution, since variants of the quote date back to at least 1916, with the …
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
Albert Einstein (misattributed) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The earliest published source located on Google Books attributing this to Einstein is the 2000 book The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists by Mary McGuire, p. 14. It was attributed to him on the…
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
Victor Hugo (misattributed) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Often attributed to Hugo as a paraphrase of a similar idea in his Histore d'un Crime (1877): "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas", the wording of this famous statement actually…
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
Joseph Stalin (misattributed) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. The earliest source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin is the book Quotations for Pu…
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
Margaret Thatcher (misattributed) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Often attributed to Thatcher, but originally said by Jesse Carr, head of Teamsters Union Local, in Newsweek, Vol. 88 (1976), p. 77
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.”
Ellen Goodman (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
James A. Garfield (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But how unlike to April’s closing days! High climbs the sun, and darts his powerful rays; Whitens the fresh drawn mould and pierces through The cumbrous clods that tumble round the plough.”
Robert Bloomfield (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.”
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (attributed) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 169
“It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest.”
Heather Brooke (attributed) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The lives of others: Heather Brooke's new book opens up further fronts in the war to set information free" The Independent (9 April 2010).
“It was that whole Wizard of Oz moment. We all look at these politicians – oh wow, they're so powerful - and then it was the little dog pulling the curtain away.”
Heather Brooke (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.”
Hugh Reginald Haweis (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amy Lee of Evanescence: "She's so freaking powerful and awesome...I love her voice because it's weird, almost like she doesn't care.”
“O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There was a sense of abundance about the woman both sweet and violent, so powerful that it could never be harnessed by things like tidiness, decency, and good manners.”
Jacqueline Kahanoff wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.”
Ian Hacking (1936–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.”
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) said by 1810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,—the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 279.
“I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant of all; I know I am one of nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.”
John Davies (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“’T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”
Frederick William Thomas (1806–1866) said by 1866 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When God’s power shines through us, it manifests as truth, auspiciousness and beauty. When God manifests through the intellect, truth shines forth. When God manifests through actions, it does so as goodness and auspiciousness. And when God manifests through the heart, beauty is the result. When truth, auspiciousness and beauty blend in our life, true strength awakens.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother’s milk for a baby.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth “I exist” is self-evident. You may deny God by saying, “God is just a belief,” but existence cannot be refuted. That existence, that Cosmic Power, is God. God has no separate hands, legs, eyes, or body, other than our own. He moves through our hands, He walks with our legs, He sees through our eyes, and it is He who beats within the heart of each one of us.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source