“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.” WorldShouldWishCausesInterestPowerfulModernExampleAccomplishmentGermanyBritainRepublicHonourSpainModern WorldPreventingGreat PowerGreat BritainGreat Powerful Book:Memorials and correspondence Source: Memorials and correspondence
“It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.” UseRememberPowerfulModernScriptsUglyPhrasesFarms Author:Mark Waid
“The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.” MadeImportantDifferentPowerfulWatchesNovelModernCreationShapesConceptsExtraordinaryAncientTalesProseRemarkableCourageousShiftingNarrators Author:Aminatta Forna
“... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.” MindHeartDoeForceSocialPowerfulModernIgnoranceDramaPrejudiceTheaterDevelopingStrongestTidesSuperstitionsHeart And MindDiscontentInterpreterUnrestDamsSwelling Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.” SaidFormPowerfulRaceRichModernStupidTheoryAmountFindingsEnormousInventionAppealsRescueDefenceExhibitsIngenuityPseudoPhysical Science Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish of sand is a good metaphor because we have the Internet. We don't have to be physically united. You can be an individual and have your own set of values but join others in certain struggles. There is nothing more powerful than that.” PeopleThinkingTogetherCertainValuesIndividualUnitedPowerfulStruggleModernInternetMetaphorChineseSandDishesModern History Author:Ai Weiwei
“Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.” WorldHardMomentsSuccessGoalPowerfulModernHard WorkEmbraceMeaningfulCombinationAbundancePresent MomentModern World Author:Old Tom Morris
“For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.” WorldMeanWarUseFightingJusticePowerfulLibertyModernDestructionInstrumentsChaosCommandOfficersWarfareNavyModern WorldNavalLiberty And JusticeWaging WarUnleashingUnited States Navy Author:Arleigh Burke
“J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.” UsedImaginationPowerfulModernMediaStyleTelevisionEmotionalRewardsTechniquePlentyCinemaPaceStorytellerRapidsStimulus Author:Michael O'Brien
“Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.” WellsMeanHomeSufferingLosesPowerfulTechnologyRichViolenceModernUnderstoodSoilSeptemberMonopolySeptember 11AtrocitiesModern Technology Author:Noam Chomsky
“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.” KnowsFirstsTwoPowerfulModernEssentialsIronyFeaturesMost PowerfulModern LifeMelodramaUnderstatement Author:Stefan Kanfer
“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.” PeopleHas BeensUsedPurposeProcessSidesImaginationPowerfulNumbersTakenModernEffectsIdentityProductsIndustryImpactProfoundEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersCorporationsSoleEroticModern SocietyEntertainment IndustrySide EffectsCommercialization Author:Robert Lawlor
“We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.” PowerfulCitiesModernHumorousAlbumsVampire Author:Rostam Batmanglij