Famous Quotes

"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends."

Henry A. Wallace 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. Wallace

• "It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."

• "A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end."

• "This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."

• "Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."

• "If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people."