Quotes About Abused Power

#1. Watergate is a sad and tragic incident in our history. They were wrong, dead wrong, those men at Watergate. Men abused power, but the system still works. Men abused money, but the system still works. Men lied and perjured themselves, but the system still .

John Wayne

#2. Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.

John Galt

#3. Power which can be abused, will be abused.

Jim Warner

#4. Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

#6. The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.

James Bovard

#7. There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

Ian McKellen

#8. Our focus should always be to lead in such a way that other Christians, as well as non-believers, will see Christ in us.

Linda Clark

#9. Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

Harry Browne

#10. Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Bryant McGill

#11. All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

James Madison

#12. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Euripides

#13. Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.

Tim Eldred

#14. Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#15. Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

Tony La Russa

#16. Reaching was a dangerous thing: it indicated longing. Longing was dangerous because it indicated need. Need was exploited, need was abused, need was someone else's power over what they could touch.

Enee N. Altson

#17. These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

Kathryn Prescott

#18. I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

Toni Morrison

#19. When a scientist says something, his colleagues must ask themselves only whether it is true. When a politician says something, his colleagues must first of all ask, 'Why does he say it?

Leo Szilard

#20. Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

Hafez

#21. Can you lead to dignity a man abused by his employer? Can you give hope for a new life to a woman whose infant has died? Can you guide an oppressed people to freedom and power?

Frank Delaney

#22. For most, not knowing how to say no is where their lives decline into a thicket of stress and unhappiness. These individuals are easy to spot, as they constantly take on the role of victim to the world's desires.

Brendon Burchard

#23. The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Victor Hugo

#24. No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it ... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Samuel Johnson

#25. For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

Gaspard Ulliel

#26. The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

Julian Assange

#27. But are we to accept a form of government which we do not entirely approve of, merely in hopes that it will be administered well? Does not every man know, that nothing is more liable to be abused than power. Power, without a check, in any hands, is tyranny;

Bernard Bailyn

#28. My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.

Lenny Bruce

#29. I think the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals abused its power all day long.

Bill O'Reilly

#30. Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

Linda Lingle

#31. Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

Voltaire