Famous Quotes

"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions."

Charles de Montesquieu 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 Charles de Montesquieu

• "It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

• "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."

• "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

• "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

• "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."