History Quotes / ComesGreatResponsibility

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->'''ComicBook/IronMan:''' Maybe what you need is some solid advice from an Iron Man.\\
'''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:''' Maybe I do, shellhead...maybe I do.\\
'''Iron Man:''' Then listen, friend: ''very few people'' on this crazy planet are lucky enough to have have the advantages you and I have. That obligates us to use those advantages.
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''

-> '''Peter Parker''': My Uncle Ben was a pilot in the Great War, did you know that? He said there was no reason to be fighting. No great cause. It was a war for markets. The old colonial empires carving up the world. And they sent boys out by the millions to die, to safeguard their profits.\\
'''Ben Urich''': You've lost me -- I don't see what the war --\\
'''Peter Parker''': He said if those in ''power'' can't be trusted, it's the ''responsibility'' of the people to remove them.
-->-- ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir''

->''"Thank you, [[Comicbook/TheSpectre Spectre]]. You have taught me a great lesson here — and I won't forget it! Fate has granted us great power — But power for power's sake is utterly worthless! Power is meaningless... until it is tempered with conscience!"''
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/WarWorld''

->You know, your father, God rest his soul, your father had a philosophy that he held to pretty strongly. And it's one that served him very, very well. He believed that if there were things in this world that you had to offer, things that you did well, better than anyone else, things that you could do that helped people feel better about themselves... Well, he believed that it wasn't just a good idea to do those things. He believed it was your responsibility to do those things. Don't try to be something else. Don't try to be less. Great things are going to happen to you and your life, Peter. Great things. And with that comes great responsibility. Do you understand?
-->-- '''Uncle Ben''', ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->''"What I'm trying to remind [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} her]] of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of."''
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->'''Ben:''' Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." People don't talk that way anymore.\\
'''Riley:''' Beautiful, huh? No idea what you just said.\\
'''Ben:''' It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
-->-- ''Film/NationalTreasure''

->''"Peter... these are the years when a man changes into the man he's going to be for the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into. This guy, Flash Thompson, he probably deserved what happened. But just because you '''can''' beat him up, doesn't give you the right to. Remember: With great power...comes great responsibility."''
-->-- '''Ben Parker''', ''Film/SpiderMan1''

->''"You're a lot like your father. You really are, Peter. And that's a good thing! But your father lived by a philosophy - a principal, really. He believed that if you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to '''do''' those things! '''THAT'S''' what's at stake here; not choice...responsibility."''
-->-- '''Ben Parker''', ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''

->'''Tony:''' You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction... and now that I'm trying to protect the people that I put in harm's way, you're gonna walk out?\\
'''Pepper:''' You're gonna kill yourself, Tony. I'm not gonna be a part of it.\\
'''Tony:''' I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's ''right.''
-->-- ''Film/IronMan1''

->''"When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you."''
-->-- '''Peter Parker''', ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

->''"[[InvertedTrope With no power comes no responsibility]]. Except that's not true."''
-->-- '''Kick Ass''', from the [[Film.KickAss film]] of the same name.
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[[folder:Literature]]
->I take a deep, shaky breath. "[[SoulEating I could have killed everyone within a quarter-kilometer radius]]."
->That's an understatement, probably, but I know better than to go full [[HumanoidAbomination Angleton]] in the middle of a city. {I practice rigid self-control. It leaves me with unresolved anger issues, but those are the breaks: [[ParodiedTrope with great power comes a great tendency to mangle]] Franchise/SpiderMan quotes.)
-->--''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles The Delirium Brief]]''

->''"I don’t see it as playing superhero. I don’t want to be one of the spandex set. I just...” I had to think about it for a second. “...I need to help people. It’s my upbringing. Goodkinds are raised to think about how their actions affect others. We’re raised to... well... if we were royalty, it would be called ''noblesse oblige''. We run a large portion of the planet, and we know that people depend on us. We have an obligation to help those people. Just because it’s inconvenient, or difficult, or something we’d rather avoid, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. I can’t look at something like those monsters and just say ‘oh let someone else get it’. That’s not how I was raised.”''\\
''Louis smiled, “With great power comes great responsibility? That sounds like a superhero credo to me, Phase.”''\\
''I sighed, “I’m not Peter Parker. Let’s re-phrase that as: ‘with great economic power comes great social responsibility’. Better?”''\\
''He was still smirking.''
-->--'''Phase''' (Ayla Goodkind), ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/175-ayla-4-ayla-and-the-tests-chapter-8-the-mares-of-diomedes "Ayla and the Tests", chapter 8]]

->''Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can ''you'' give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.''
-->-- '''Gandalf''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': ''The Fellowship Of The Ring''
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->''"Kat, I've told them. It's not about the suits or the weapons. It's about helping people, and upholding the tradition of being a Power Ranger."''
-->-- '''Sky''', ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''
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[[folder:Music]]
->''"With great power comes great responsibility,\\
That's the CatchPhrase of old Uncle Ben.\\
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line,\\
Again, and again, and again!"''
-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''' on the Spider-Man movies (to the tune of Music/BillyJoel's "Piano Man")
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[[folder:Religion & Mythology]]
->''"Much is required from those to whom much is given."''
-->-- [[Literature/TheBible Luke 12:48]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''"Magic will serve that which is best in me, not what is most base."''
-->--'''Malcolm Hawke''', [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Dragon Age II: Legacy]]

->''"You've got great power, [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert]], [[AGodAmI but you're not very]] [[OmnicidalManiac responsible with it]]!"''
-->-- '''Franchise/SpiderMan''', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''

->''"You must promise to use [[PsychicPowers this]] only when it's really important or really, really funny."''
-->--'''Ford Cruller,''' ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''

->''if you have some sort of special power... isn't it your responsibility to do the right thing?''
-->[[spoiler:'''Sans''', if you have killed Papyrus]], ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
->If you’re given power, and use it improperly, if you use it to do evil in the world...\\
...however brave or strong you might be, you’ll be destroyed, and never stand again.
-->-- '''Hifumi Yamada''', ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
->'''Peter:''' When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you.
->'''Tony:''' Nnnnnnnno. That's not it.
->'''Peter:''' It's not?
->'''Tony:''' That's not the line. C'mon, say it right.
->'''Peter:''' What line?
->'''Tony:''' You know...
->'''Peter:''' With... great power comes... great responsibility?
->'''Tony:''' (smug) There it is!
-->-- ''[[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded How Captain America: Civil War should have ended]]''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
-> '''Spider-Carnage''': [[ThisCannotBe No it, it can't be!]]
-> '''Alternate!Uncle Ben''': Peter, its me. Uncle Ben.
-> '''Spider-Carnage''': Uncle Ben?
-> '''Alternate!Uncle Ben''': I've been told everything.
-> '''Spider-Carnage''': Is it really you?
-> '''Alternate!Uncle Ben''': I know you've had a very bad time. But in this dimension, I'm here for you. And no matter what, I love you.
-> '''Spider-Carnage''': (''shows his true face'') I love you too Uncle Ben. I... love... you... too! (''breaks down crying'')
-> '''Alternate!Uncle Ben''': Do you remember what I taught you about, great power?
-> '''Spider-Carnage''': Yes, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility with great power, there must come great responsibility]].
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''
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->''"Magic will serve that which is best in me, not what is most base."''
-->--'''Malcolm Hawke''', [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Dragon Age II: Legacy]]

->''"With great power comes great responsibility,\\
That's the CatchPhrase of old Uncle Ben.\\
If you missed it, don't worry, they'll say the line,\\
Again, and again, and again!"''
-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''' on the Spider-Man movies (to the tune of Music/BillyJoel's "Piano Man").

->''"You've got great power, [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert]], [[AGodAmI but you're not very]] [[OmnicidalManiac responsible with it]]!"''
-->-- '''Franchise/SpiderMan''', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''

->''With great power comes great hilarity.''
-->-- Tagline for ''Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain'' by A. Lee Martinez.

->''"Much is required from those to whom much is given."''
-->-- [[Literature/TheBible Luke 12:48]]

->''"With great power comes great need to take a nap."''
-->-- ''Nico Di Angelo'', ''Literature/PercyJackson''

->''"No being is as constrained as an omnipotent being. With all-encompassing power comes all-encompassing responsibility. An omniscient being cannot claim He did not know what was expected of Him."''
-->-- '''The Living Tribunal''', ''Creator/MarvelComics''

->''"You must promise to use [[PsychicPowers this]] only when it's really important or really, really funny."''
-->--'''Ford Cruller,''' VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}

->''if you have some sort of special power... isn't it your responsibility to do the right thing?''
-->[[spoiler:'''Sans''', if you have killed Papyrus]], ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''

->''"People like me, [[ThankTheMaker we created this universe.]] We have a responsibility to keep it safe. These Programs they need me! […] I know I'm in danger – it's war! I could die, or get derezzed, or whatever. [[NotAfraidToDie I'm a big boy, I get that.]]"''
-->--'''Jet Bradley''', ''[[TronTwoPointOh Tron: Ghost in the Machine]]''

->''"Thank you, [[Comicbook/TheSpectre Spectre]]. You have taught me a great lesson here — and I won't forget it! Fate has granted us great power — But power for power's sake is utterly worthless! Power is meaningless... until it is tempered with conscience!"''
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Comicbook/WarWorld''

->''"What I'm trying to remind [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} her]] of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of."''
-->-- '''Franchise/{{Superman}}''', ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''

->'''Ben:''' Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." People don't talk that way anymore.\\
'''Riley:''' Beautiful, huh? No idea what you just said.\\
'''Ben:''' It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
-->-- ''Film/NationalTreasure''

->''"Peter... these are the years when a man changes into the man he's going to be for the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into. This guy, Flash Thompson, he probably deserved what happened. But just because you '''can''' beat him up, doesn't give you the right to. Remember: With great power...comes great responsibility."''
-->-- '''Ben Parker''', ''Film/SpiderMan1''

->''"You're a lot like your father. You really are, Peter. And that's a good thing! But your father lived by a philosophy - a principal, really. He believed that if you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to '''do''' those things! '''THAT'S''' what's at stake here; not choice...responsibility."''
-->-- '''Ben Parker''', ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan''

->'''Tony:''' You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction... and now that I'm trying to protect the people that I put in harm's way, you're gonna walk out?\\
'''Pepper:''' You're gonna kill yourself, Tony. I'm not gonna be a part of it.\\
'''Tony:''' I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's ''right.''
-->-- ''Film/IronMan1''

->''"When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you."''
-->-- '''Peter Parker''', ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

->You know, your father, God rest his soul, your father had a philosophy that he held to pretty strongly. And it's one that served him very, very well. He believed that if there were things in this world that you had to offer, things that you did well, better than anyone else, things that you could do that helped people feel better about themselves... Well, he believed that it wasn't just a good idea to do those things. He believed it was your responsibility to do those things. Don't try to be something else. Dont try to be less. Great things are going to happen to you and your life, Peter. Great things. And with that comes great responsibility. Do you understand?
-->-- Uncle Ben, ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''

->I take a deep, shaky breath. "[[SoulEating I could have killed everyone within a quarter-kilometer radius]]."
->That's an understatement, probably, but I know better than to go full [[HumanoidAbomination Angleton]] in the middle of a city. {I practice rigid self-control. It leaves me with unresolved anger issues, but those are the breaks: [[ParodiedTrope with great power comes a great tendency to mangle]] Franchise/SpiderMan quotes.)
-->--''[[Literature/TheLaundryFiles The Delirium Brief]]''

->If you’re given power, and use it improperly, if you use it to do evil in the world...\\
...however brave or strong you might be, you’ll be destroyed, and never stand again.
-->-- '''Hifumi Yamada''', ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''

->Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can ''you'' give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
-->-- '''Gandalf''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': ''The Fellowship Of The Ring''

-->-''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''

-> '''Peter Parker''': My Uncle Ben was a pilot in the Great War, did you know that? He said there was no reason to be fighting. No great cause. It was a war for markets. The old colonial empires carving up the world. And they sent boys out by the millions to die, to safeguard their profits.\\
'''Ben Urich''': You've lost me -- I don't see what the war --\\
'''Peter Parker''': He said if those in ''power'' can't be trusted, it's the ''responsibility'' of the people to remove them.
-->-- ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir''

-->--'''Phase''' (Ayla Goodkind), ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''

-->-- '''SpiderMan''', ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''

-->-- '''Ben Parker''', ''Film/SpiderMan''

->''"You've got great power, [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Albert]], [[AGodAmI but you're not very]] [[OmnicidalManiac responsible with it!"]]''

...however brace or strong you might be, you’ll be destroyed, and never stand again.

->''Much is required from those to whom much is given.''

->''With great power comes great need to take a nap.''

->''You must promise to use [[PsychicPowers this]] only when it's really important or really, really funny.''

->Thank you, [[Comicbook/TheSpectre Spectre]]. You have taught me a great lesson here — and I won't forget it! Fate has granted us great power — But power for power's sake is utterly worthless! Power is meaningless... until it is tempered with conscience!

->What I'm trying to remind [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} her]] of is that our powers place us in a certain position. And it's one of obligation. No one on Earth can do what we can, and very often, to protect it and other planets, we are required to do everything we're capable of.

->'''Ben''': Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others: "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." People don't talk that way anymore.\\
'''Riley''': Beautiful, huh? No idea what you just said.\\
'''Ben''': It means, if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

-->-- ''[[WebVideo/HowItShouldHaveEnded How Captain America: Civil War should have ended]]''

-->-- [[TheBible Luke 12:48]]

->'''Tony:''' You stood by my side all these years when I reaped the benefits of destruction... and now that I'm trying to protect the people that I put in harm's way, you're gonna walk out?\\

-->-- '''Peter Parker''', ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming''

That's the CatchPhrase of ole' Uncle Ben.\\