Powerful Quotes

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

Doubts are powerful. They, not only demand we look again, they tell us what to see.

Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.