#power

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#come #forces #idea #powerful #time

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#destroy #end #first #first time #future

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#american #divided #europe #into #leaving

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#amorphous #ask #being #bill #bill clinton

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#addiction #break #democracy #gives #greater

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#cannot #culture #does #elevation #give

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting. ↗

— Paul Harris

#his #infrequently #leader #make #meeting

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#about #angry #does #indicate #make

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#asking #democracy #only #ought #persists

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. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #between #both #determined #divided