Famous Quotes

"It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men."

Eric Hoffer 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 Eric Hoffer

• "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

• "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

• "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."

• "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."