Powerful Quotes - Page 7

• The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

  Hammurabi

  Government, Firsts, Duty

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• And we may be led, then, upward through more
  Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
  With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
  Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
  Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

  John Ashbery

  Country, Art, Real

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Champion, Faces, Needs

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Class, Community

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• There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is that two different theories that are too powerful must necessarily contradict each other.

  Saharon Shelah

  Science, Two, Different

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• There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Magic, One Day At A Time

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• Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Outcomes, Ownership

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• Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, Rocks

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• For many of the most powerful people in the entertainment business, hostility to organized religion goes so deep and burns so intensely that they insist on expressing that hostility, even at the risk of financial disaster.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, People

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Educational

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, War, Two

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• Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Motivation, Love Is

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.68, Penguin

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• The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Arms

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• Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.

  Leigh Brackett

  Judging, Allies, Looks

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", 1980.

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Clever, Long, People

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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• Prayer is a supernal gift of our Father in Heaven to every soul. Think of it: the absolute Supreme Being, the most all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful personage, encourages you and me, as insignificant as we are, to converse with Him as our Father. Our supplication can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Prayer, Father

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• In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Practice, Race, Weapons

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1984). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: September 1920-August 1921”, p.402, Univ of California Press

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• Women are powerful and dangerous.

  Audre Lorde

  Dangerous

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Issues, Trying

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• Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

  Raymond Cattell

  Horse, Plato, Passion

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Talking, Silence, Feelings

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• It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

  Rick Perlstein

  Lying, Two, Political

  "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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• We must life the level of understanding both at home and abroad of what the free enterprise system is, what it is not, and how it benefits the people who live under it. We must somehow get these elementary truths across, not only to the people of other lands but to millions here at home who do not understand it, if we are to generate a powerful demand and desire for its retention.

  Philip D. Reed

  Home, Land, People

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