Famous Quotes

"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."

Vladimir Lenin 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 Vladimir Lenin

• "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."

• "The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."

• "When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

• "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

• "When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state."