“the human mind… perhaps the most powerful weapon. second only to the "GUN"”
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As quoted in The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p. 3
“the human mind… perhaps the most powerful weapon. second only to the "GUN"”
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1990s, A Distinctly American Internationalism (November 1999)
“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.”
Howard Gardner, cited in: Richard L. Daft (2014), The Leadership Experience, p. 273
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”
" 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.
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
To the Christian Nobility of the German States (1520), translated by Charles M. Jacobs, reported in rev. James Atkinson, The Christian in Society, I (Luther's Works, ed. James Atkinson, vol. 44), p. 207 (1966)
“The greatest nation and most powerful nation on Earth.”
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