Famous Quotes

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

C. S. Lewis on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by C. S. Lewis

• "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

• "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

• "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."

• "Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

• "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."