#powerful

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#blames #creates #faulty #god #having

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#manipulation #people #pity #powerful #smarts

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#get #how #i #i can #inspire

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#army #attack #country #defence #experienced

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization. ↗

— John Conyers

#bankruptcy #care #causing #companies #force

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#close #close proximity #club #i #intense

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down