[An Abecedary of Cape-Wearing] G is for Great Power

G is for Great Power

"With great power comes great responsibility."
--Stan Lee (or Voltaire or the Torah)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -- Lord Acton

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” 

― Mahatma Gandhi

“Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is timing. It waits on the right time to act,for the right principles and in the right way.” 

― Fulton J. Sheen

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.” 

― Joss Whedon

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.” 

― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” 

― John Steinbeck

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” 

― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

That is all.