Famous Quotes

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

Vladimir Nabokov 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 Vladimir Nabokov

• "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."

• "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

• "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

• "Genius is an African who dreams up snow."

• "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."