1. potent - Noun
2. potent - Adjective
3. potent - Adjective Satellite
Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
A prince; a potentate.
A staff or crutch.
One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Source: Webster's dictionarySo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. Lucretius
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steve Biko
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force ... is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. Martin Luther King Jr.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. Samuel Gompers