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
