Potency Quotations

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.