Famous Quotes

"People who are powerless make an open theater of violence."

Don DeLillo 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 Don DeLillo

• "Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."

• "I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language."

• "I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."

• "There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

• "There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."