Quotes About Abuse Of Position

#1. If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

Harvey MacKay

#2. I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Alan Lightman

#3. Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

Jenny McCarthy

#4. He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.

Toni Morrison

#5. Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,

Monica Lewinsky

#6. And if she'd thought the man was dangerous in a football uniform, he was positively lethal in a tux.

Lauren Layne

#7. On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on 'Superwoman.' I'm a huge workaholic. My hobby is 'Superwoman.'

Lilly Singh

#8. Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#9. A cold chill shot down my spine. How the hell did this freaking ass-hat have any position of authority? Power was supposed to be earned, not handed to the first idiotic dimwit willing to abuse it.

Cameo Renae

#10. The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

Diane Watson

#11. Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.

Nick Davies

#12. There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it ...

Edward St. Aubyn

#13. My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

Saul Rubinek

#14. England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others ... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens ... I adopted them passionately.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#15. If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

Ken Wilson