Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.”
—Rosalind Coward (b. 1953)