Top 100 Quotes About Misuse
#1. Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.
Leonard Mlodinow
#2. 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
#3. We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.
Ron Lewis
#4. To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.
James Lee Burke
#5. Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.
Frank Sheed
#6. Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Philip K. Dick
#7. NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.
Newt Gingrich
#8. The attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.
Jan Clausen
#9. Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
#10. Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.
Ron Paul
#11. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ.
Thomas S. Monson
#12. It is the cruelty of men that we must fear, not the wisdom they misuse, and certainly not the wise that possess it.
Daniel Marques
#13. I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#14. For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. ... The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.
Kai Meyer
#15. Such questions as "Why this universe?" are a kind of intellectual neurosis, a
misuse of words in that the question sounds sensible but is actually as
meaningless as asking "Where is this universe?
Alan W. Watts
#16. It's so easy to misuse social media as a dating tool. I think it can be useful but it's scary when you think about who can access this information and what they're doing with it.
Justin Long
#17. I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#18. I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.
Robert Bolt
#19. THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS FOR. GOODBYE
Dan Simmons
#20. If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#21. 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
#22. I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.
Amin Maalouf
#23. As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
Mark Hatfield
#24. The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic ...
Be Impeccable with Your Word.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#25. I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.
Sue Monk Kidd
#26. The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
Adam Hamilton
#27. But what stops one from committing sins, if they have nothing to fear?" Kell shrugged. "I've seen people sin in the name of god, and in the name of magic. People misuse their higher powers, no matter what form they take.
V.E Schwab
#29. What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.
W. Edwards Deming
#31. I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
Clare Short
#32. Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William Cowper
#33. With affluence come the debased gifts born of abuse, misuse, and overuse.
John Zande
#34. The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
Saint Augustine
#35. Carson's thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.
Rachel Carson
#36. I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.
Winston Churchill
#37. The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
Socrates
#38. It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#39. 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
#40. The misuse of creation begins when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves".
Anonymous
#41. The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
Aldo Leopold
#42. His destiny is in his genes. He can no more ignore this call, this summons, than he can ignore the beating of his heart. So it is with Man's becoming more than he now is. Not Superman, assuredly, for that name has been contaminated with misuse. But a creature with a superb destiny.
Ray Bradbury
#43. It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#44. Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork ... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.
Elizabeth Bowen
#45. As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
Joseph Goebbels
#46. Joffy had decided many years before that the problem with religion wasn't religion itself but its flagrant misuse as an absolutist argument to promote narrow tribal agendas.
Jasper Fforde
#48. Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
Edsger Dijkstra
#49. the heavens raped
from our misuse of love
A.P. Sweet
#50. Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.
Arun Jaitley
#51. It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
Charles A. Reich
#52. We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.
Dave Matthews
#53. You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!
John Green
#54. The correct use of a strong cipher is a clear boon to sender and receiver, but the misuse of a weak cipher can generate a very false sense of security.
Simon Singh
#55. Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.
Alistair Begg
#56. We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
Woodrow Wilson
#57. 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
#58. A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#59. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem ... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate ... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.
Frederick Soddy
#60. Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.
Brian Goetz
#61. It takes a truly good person to gain power, strength, and mystical abilities and not misuse them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#62. Michael titled his head. "But . . . Uriel, if I were to misuse it . . ." "I would Fall," Uriel said quietly. I choked on the air. Holy crap. The last time an archangel Fell, I'm pretty sure there were extended consequences.
Jim Butcher
#63. You can bend it and twist it ... You can misuse and abuse it ... But even God cannot change the Truth.
Michael Levy, Baron Levy
#64. I said it was a brutal thing.
No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it,
Mark Twain
#65. The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#66. My pet peeve is the misuse of the word, "quote!
Dan Hokstad
#67. Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.
Mark Pellegrino
#68. The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. When you think about how time is passing, think about how you can use what is passing with time. You can't stop time but you can use or misuse what is passing with time
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#70. Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.
Emile Capouya
#71. America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
Dick Gregory
#72. While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.
Byron White
#73. If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.
Craig Groeschel
#74. A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
Ellen Key
#75. It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
John Cage
#76. While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
Adam Hamilton
#77. It is possible, I think, to say that ... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.
Wendell Berry
#78. There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.
Craig Keen
#79. Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.
Nikolaas Tinbergen
#80. I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.
Marilyn Manson
#81. If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.
Mark Twain
#82. It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.
Peter Block
#83. A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything." Con Houlihan
John Doyle
#84. Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination
Ed Foreman
#85. I don't feel part of the world. No one needs me or wants me or even likes me very much. I don't like myself. The world will keep turning without me. I'll be no great loss. I'm just a temporary misuse of a minute amount of carbon.
Barbara Elsborg
#86. You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
#87. 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
#88. People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action ...
Moshe Feldenkrais
#89. Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus The Confessor
#90. One of the biggest problems is religion's misuse of the Law. This has done tremendous damage to God's image.
Paul Silway
#91. The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch
#92. Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.
Mia Bloom
#93. There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent
#94. Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
Ingrid Newkirk
#95. The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.
George McGovern
#96. If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#97. As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse.
Carl Sagan
#98. Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.
Bill Dedman
#99. The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
Dada Bhagwan
#100. Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Steve Chandler
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