Potent

Famous quotes containing the word potent:

“No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!”
—Eliza “Mother” Stewart (1816–c. 1908)

“Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate
Against the potent poison of your hate.”
—Claude McKay (1889–1948)