2,137 Quotes About Powerful

Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.

The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force in not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Surrender is a powerful force.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.