Famous Quotes

"What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power."

Henry George 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 George

• "The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

• "There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."

• "The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."