Famous Quotes

"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

Henry A. Kissinger 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 Henry A. Kissinger

• "A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

• "People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."

• "Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

• "Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."

• "A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."