Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.”
—Harold Clurman (1901–1980)

“Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)