It is your capacity for love that makes you strong, Prince Corum." "And my capacity for hate?" "That directs your strength. - Michael Moorcock

As I believe I observed earlier," said the albino prince to the still-cowed Gaynor, "the most powerful of beings are not necessarily the most intelligent, nor, indeed, sane, nor well-mannered. The more one knows of the gods, the more one learns this fundamental lesson...

I realized I was fulfilling mankind’s greatest dream—to fly like a bird, as naturally and as joyously as if the air were our familiar habitat.

By acting as they would act, we become what they are. And if we are what they are, then there is little point in resisting them!