The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
Michael J. Tucker

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer

What force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
Howard Mumford Jones

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Dick Morris

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe