Famous Quotes

"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."

Charles de Gaulle 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 Charles de Gaulle

• "Old age is a shipwreck."

• "Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

• "You'll live. Only the best get killed."

• "It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge."

• "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."