Quotes About Misuse Of Power

#1. It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

Charles A. Reich

#2. Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

Louis D. Brandeis

#3. The Spaniard was looking at her bare legs, he was going to accidently-on-purpose hit him when Snow started misbehaving.

Jennifer Ashley

#4. There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

Michael Owen

#5. Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time.

Pawan Mishra

#6. I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy when you're 25 years old. Even 37. I'd like to have to be, like, 70 to have a legacy. I'm not even 100 percent sure what the word even means.

Peyton Manning

#7. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

#8. A man who wishes for power is the most likely to misuse it.

Becky Wallace

#9. If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

John De Ruiter

#10. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

#11. The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

David A. Bednar

#12. In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.

B.F. Skinner

#13. We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Max Levchin

#14. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Thomas Merton

#15. People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Gordon Allport

#16. My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Steven Spielberg

#17. Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Mae West

#18. It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

Peter Block

#19. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Mark Pellegrino

#21. It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#22. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be

Abraham H. Maslow

#23. In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

Pope Francis

#24. The law of Karma is the law of causation.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

Charles Kimbrough

#26. Lack of knowledge and skills, laziness, gluttony, over-indulgence, lustiness, anger, fear, greed and misuse of knowledge, power and designation are the sources of corruption in the government employees.

Dev Dantreliya

#27. I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

James Thayer

#28. I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#29. I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. I suspect the fault ... is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

James Agee

#31. Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

#32. There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

Meghan Daum