Famous Quotes

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy."

John Maynard Keynes 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 John Maynard Keynes

• "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

• "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

• "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future."

• "The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future."

• "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."