Famous Quotes

"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• "I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion."

• "My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."

• "My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."

• "The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."

• "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."