Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hedges

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

Christine Gregoire

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

Christine Lavin

Tikkun Olam Repair The World is simple, powerful, to the point and so professional sounding.

Christie Hefner

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Irving Howe

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

Adolf Hitler

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Jeanette Winterson

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Jeanette Winterson

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Jim Fowler

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Jim Fowler

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Jennifer Hudson

We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.

Jennifer Granholm

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.

Jeff Buckley

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

Jeff Bezos

Word of mouth is very powerful.

Jean-Paul Sartre

When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.

Howard Zinn

The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.

James Bovard

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

James Farmer

in-flight collision with an unmarked static power line.

I'm greedy. I want to win the region. I don't want to have to rely on power points.

I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

Kevin Spacey

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Narendra Modi

PIO card holders- they have lot of visa issues. We decided they will get lifelong visa.

Narendra Modi

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

Narendra Modi

People ask what your vision is, what is your big vision? I say 'bhai', I got here by way of selling tea. I am a simple Chhota man. I like focusing on simple and small tasks. I want to accomplish big things for the little guy.

Narendra Modi

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

Jackson Katz

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Henry A. Wallace

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

Henry Adams

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.