Power & Society Sayings

508 sayings found from 508 authors

I don’t want to be rich. I want to be happy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald Unknown
Money & Business

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1949
War & Conflict

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

— Toni Morrison 1993
Justice & Rights

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

— Maya Angelou Unknown
War & Conflict

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde 1890
Justice & Rights

Publication – is the Auction Of the Mind of Man – Poverty – be justifying For so foul a thing

— Emily Dickinson c. 1863
Money & Business

I've never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

— Robert Frost c. 1920s-1930s
Political

The world is a spiritual battleground.

— William Butler Yeats 1926
War & Conflict

The world has its leave-taking in the murmur of the sea.

— Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Power & Leadership

A man who lives on the bank of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

— Chinua Achebe 1958
Money & Business

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

— Wole Soyinka Unknown
Justice & Rights

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973
Power & Leadership

A good name is better than riches.

— Cervantes 1615
Money & Business

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1832
Money & Business

To be true to the great power of blackness in him.

— Herman Melville 1851
Power & Leadership

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

— Mary Shelley 1831
Power & Leadership

Humanity is a queer business.

— H.G. Wells Uncertain
Money & Business

It is a great misfortune to be too much alone, and, above all, to be without some one to whom one can talk with perfect freedom.

— Jules Verne 1875
Money & Business

I'm a beat, not a beatnik. I'm a generation, not a fad. I'm a movement, not a trend. I'm a revolution, not a rebellion. I'm a.

— Jack Kerouac 1960
Political

I'm a sex maniac. I'm a pervert. I'm a homosexual. I'm a drug addict. I'm a communist. I'm a Jew. I'm all those things.

— Allen Ginsberg 1960s
Political
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