It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
Ken Kesey

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
Dorothy Day

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Dorothy Day

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover Cleveland

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
Maurice Strong

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Hermann Goering

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Hermann Goering

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

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

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

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

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
Angela Davis