Top 20 Quotes About Abusing Power
#1. In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge [Samuel] Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling.
Samuel Alito
#2. How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
Frederick Lenz
#3. There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
Joss Whedon
#4. There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James
#5. I bring his hand to my lips and kiss his palm, my eyes closing, as I inflict as much emotion into my action as possible. "I love you," I whisper. The pang in my heart spreads, thundering through my body.
Trisha Wolfe
#6. I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.
Alice Waters
#7. Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame De Stael
#8. We still have a lot to talk about," I said. "Talk?" He shook his head, his eyes full of desire. Kiss, he whispered to my thoughts.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#9. Tell Dr. Jonas next time I'll do that thing he likes with the peanut butter and the cock ring."
"It is without a doubt the sole reason he went to medical school.
Tiffany Reisz
#10. People abusing their power makes me see red.
Neil Jackson
#11. Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad Iqbal
#13. There is no bigger sin than men cruelly abusing their power to keep their own nation in servitude, he said, and he did not need to explain who the sinners were.
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
#14. Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole.
Louis Oosthuizen
#15. A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much.
Robert Jeffress
#16. There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
Ted Nugent
#17. A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.
Matt Lanter
#18. Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
David Ricardo
#19. The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
Chris Bell
#20. Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
