It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Mitt Romney

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
Marquis de Sade

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.
Norman Cousins

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume