“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”
Source: I Know This Much Is True
“We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.”
Speech at the National Press Club (2004)
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“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.”
Source: Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
Gerry Spence
(1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 12 The Unbeatable Power Argument : Delivering the Knockout p. 191
Context: The power argument is an argument so powerful in its structure, so compelling in its delivery that when we assume the power stance the argument cannot be defeated. The power argument need not fill the air with noise. It need not create pandemonium. It need not destroy the opponent. It can be quiet. Gentle. It can embrace love, not anger, understanding, not hate.
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”
Nelson Mandela
(1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
" Lighting your way to a better future : Speech delivered by Mr N R Mandela at launch of Mindset Network http://db.nelsonmandela.org/speeches/pub_view.asp?pg=item&ItemID=NMS909&txtstr=education%20is%20the%20most%20powerful," July 16, 2003 at db.nelsonmandela.org. ; Cited in: Nelson Mandela, S. K. Hatang, Sahm Venter (2012) Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom. p. 101.
2000s
Context: Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world and is a powerful part of that world changing arsenal.
Warren Farrell
(1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Why Men Earn More (2005)
“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”
Joel Osteen
(1963) American televangelist and author
Hannah Arendt
book
On Violence
On the subject violence and power. Source: On Violence, published in 1970. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.
“The greatest nation and most powerful nation on Earth.”
Enda Kenny
(1951) Irish Fine Gael politician and Taoiseach
In reference to the United States, in a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama https://www.c-span.org/video/?324884-1/president-obama-meeting-irish-prime-minister-enda-kenny (March 2015)
2010s