Famous Quotes

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."

Aneurin Bevan 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 Aneurin Bevan

• "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."

• "It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."

• "Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."

• "Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."

• "Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future."