Famous quotes containing the word powerful:
“The toddlers wish to please ... is a powerful aid in helping the child to develop a social awareness and, eventually, a moral conscience. The childs love for the parent is so strong that it causes him to change his behavior: to refrain from hitting and biting, to share toys with a peer, to become toilet trained. This wish for approval is the parents most reliable ally in the process of socializing the child.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)
“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“All the isms are wasmsexcept one, the most powerful ism of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
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