Quotes About Abusive Power

#1. Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

Kara Walker

#2. I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

#3. The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

#4. When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Illeana Douglas

#5. I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them strength to get out of abusive relationships or to just pick up a musical instrument and learn to play.

Lita Ford

#6. Shagga, cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats." Shagga hefted the huge double-bladed axe. "There are no goats, Halfman." "Make do.

George R R Martin

#7. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

Vince Vaughn

#8. I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Katie Holmes

#9. Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Samantha Power

#10. I like to look for gifts throughout the year. If I find the perfect item for someone, I put it in my "gift closet" and keep it for the next holiday. But I often get too excited and just give it to them before!

Christina Hendricks

#11. Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.

Judith Lewis Herman

#12. Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Why ruin a good story with the truth?

Woody Allen

#14. A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

Noam Chomsky

#15. Maybe it's not the first kisses that are supposed to be special. Maybe it's the last ones.

Kiera Cass

#16. The highest mode of corruption is the abuse of power.

Auliq Ice