Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

“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)

“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another with respect, consideration, and love.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)