Famous Quotes

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women."

Ursula K. Le Guin 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 Ursula K. Le Guin

• "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

• "There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams."

• "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."

• "I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy."

• "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."