Famous Quotes

"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."

Manuel Puig 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 Manuel Puig

• "I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."

• "I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

• "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"

• "I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."

• "I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."