#powerful

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#powerful #powerless #satire #traditionally #weapon

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#film #i #i think #like #medium

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#both #destruction #great #neither #nor

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#dine #fast #fast food #feed #food

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#conflict #course #debate #deep #gave

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#high #however #human #never #passion

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#centres #companies #countries #created #development

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#destroying #environment #fond #governments #including

I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

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