Famous Quotes

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

John Steinbeck 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 Steinbeck

• "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."

• "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

• "Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."

• "Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard."

• "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."