“Yet the powers that be haven't quite considered the strength of our sheer numbers.”

—  Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 14, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Yet the powers that be haven't quite considered the strength of our sheer numbers." by Margaret Cho?
Margaret Cho photo
Margaret Cho179
American stand-up comedian 1968

Related quotes

Sun Tzu photo

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter IX · Movement and Development of Troops

Bill Hicks photo

“They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Dark Poet (1991)

Martin Van Buren photo

“From a small community we have risen to a people powerful in numbers and in strength; but with our increase has gone hand in hand the progress of just principles.”

Martin Van Buren (1782–1862) American politician, 8th President of the United States (in office from 1837 to 1841)

Inaugural address (1837)

James Patterson photo

“What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“It is sheer nonsense to expect that any human being has yet been able to attain such insight into the problems of society that he can really identify the central problems and determine how they should be solved. The systems in which we live are far too complicated as yet for our intellectual powers and technology to understand.”

C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist

Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. x

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

“I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.”

Ursula K. Le Guin book The Lathe of Heaven

Orr
The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

Carl Linnaeus photo

“Great is our God, and great is His power, and his strength is immeasurable”

Carl Linnaeus book Systema Naturae

In the dedication from his 12th edition.
Original in Latin: "Magnus est DEUS noster, & magna est potentia Ejus, & potentia Ejus non est numerus."
Systema Naturae

Claude Monet photo

“It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

his remark in 1908; as quoted in The Private Lives of the Impressionists Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 269
1900 - 1920

Paulo Coelho photo

“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo

“There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician

Southey's Colloquies on Society (1830)

Related topics