Potent Quotes

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

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

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.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

What force is more potent than love?

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

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

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

'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.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

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

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

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

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.

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

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

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.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.