Famous Quotes

"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."

Salman Rushdie 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 Salman Rushdie

• "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes."

• "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up."

• "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall."

• "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."

• "Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms."