#powerful

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#means #power #powerful #religion #remain

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#darkness #deepest #fear #frightens #inadequate

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#know #matter #never #powerful #somebody

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#failing #ideology #incentive #just #powerful

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#against #derision #divinity #follow #footsteps

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#fat #guns #make #only #powerful

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

#come #gone #movies #out #powerful

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experiences #happen #having #people #phenomenon

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

#aid #bad #being #came #course

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