Famous Quotes

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice."

Edmund Burke 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 Edmund Burke

• "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

• "The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

• "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

• "Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

• "Beauty is the promise of happiness."