Famous Quotes

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

George Bernard Shaw 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 George Bernard Shaw

• "Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

• "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

• "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

• "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

• "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."