Famous Quotes

"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."

Thomas Malthus 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 Thomas Malthus

• "Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."

• "In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."

• "I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."

• "I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."