Top 39 Quotes About Abuses Of Power
#1. I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
Alex Gibney
#2. Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
James Madison
#3. We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
Victor Ponta
#4. Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.
Stefan Molyneux
#5. An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.
Terry Southern
#6. It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.
Bell Hooks
#7. We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.
Frederick Lenz
#8. My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.
Glenn Greenwald
#9. Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.
Richard Norton Smith
#10. This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to constrain abuses of power for more than 200 years. The Supreme Court is relied upon by all of to us protect our fundamental rights.
Patrick Leahy
#11. Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.
Jonathan Turley
#12. Sexiest is definitely Drusilla, though if you ask a girl, she'll probably say Damon Salvatore or Edward Cullen. But . . . He shrugged.
Cassandra Clare
#13. The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
Isabel Allende
#14. I knew from my years of writing about NSA abuses that it can be hard to generate serious concern about secret state surveillance: invasion of privacy and abuse of power can be viewed as abstractions, ones that are difficult to get people to care about viscerally.
Glenn Greenwald
#15. You don't get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad ... it's incumbent upon you, if you're going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
Mark Rippetoe
#16. You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business.
Chris Squire
#17. In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
Nick Davies
#18. The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
James F. Cooper
#19. The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay
#21. The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#22. Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
Samantha Power
#23. Anxiously, he touched the lump on his head again, then felt his injured leg, groaning. "The whole affair is a mystery to me," he said. "Who would want to steal anything from me?"
"Perhaps a thief ... ?" ventured Julius.
Henry Winterfeld
#24. An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.
David Korten
#25. I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.
George Best
#26. One who abuses his power, unaware that one day will be the victim of his own abuses
Miguel El Portugues
#27. An education without a Bible education is no education.
Clive James
#28. What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
Kabir
#29. The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
Charles A. Reich
#31. Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom,
Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison
That keeps you from achieving what you want.
Tony Robbins
#32. If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
Horace Bushnell
#34. Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it - equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press - and only for that reason did he obtain power.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
Benjamin Franklin
#36. Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.
Karen Kingsbury
#38. The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.
Ruby Rose
#39. Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.
Chris Pine
