Quotes About Authority Abuse

#1. I'm a good friend.

Jack Nicholson

#2. True engineers must trust the eye more than any formula.

Alexey N. Krylov

#3. Authority is not bad; abuse of authority is bad. God

Matt Chandler

#4. I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

Abby Wambach

#5. The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

Ashley Montagu

#6. What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. i wear my scars, they don't wear me.

Samantha Towle

#8. I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

Louisa May Alcott

#9. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

Lundy Bancroft

#10. To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax

#11. The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.

Scott Hahn

#12. Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

Ernest Renan

#13. The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridden event, but it may be the best insurance that the incest will not continue.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#14. By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

#15. 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

#16. Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Not the wish to die with dignity but the desire to have died

Christopher Hitchens

#18. When the locus of evaluation is seen as residing in the expert, it would appear that the long-range social implications are in the direction of the social control of the many by the few.

Carl R. Rogers

#19. Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.

Don McCullin

#20. Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Maggie Young

#21. Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Madeleine L'Engle

#22. Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Hamid Karzai

#23. when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Eleanor Parker

#25. I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Sean Brady

#26. A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

Herb Kohl

#27. Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.

Mick Karabegovic

#28. We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

Joseph Epstein

#29. Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Jack Campbell

#30. Women who are concerned with being pretty think about what they look like, but women who are concerned with being beautiful think about what they are looking at. They are taking it all in. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#31. As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

Bob McNair

#32. Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Kurt Vonnegut