Famous Quotes

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James A. Baldwin 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 James A. Baldwin

• "People can cry much easier than they can change."

• "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

• "Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

• "The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

• "The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."