“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” — John Steinbeck
“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.” ― Dale Carnegie
“The object of power is power.” — George Orwell, 1984
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.” — George Orwell, 1984
“Don’t trust children with edge tools. Don’t trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!” —Ralph Waldo Emerson