Famous Quotes

"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."

Theodor Adorno 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 Theodor Adorno

• "In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

• "True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves."

• "No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

• "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth."

• "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order."