Top 25 Quotes About Not Abusing Power
#1. I liked my teacher very much and after some years of mediation, I began to teach meditation, referring all things that I didn't know to my own teacher.
Frederick Lenz
#2. The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
Chris Bell
#3. Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
David Ricardo
#4. 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
#5. I love Vanguard. Sony was great too, but it was a different animal, it was so big. It's hard to get the big monster to move, unless you're right there on top of things. And you can't always be on top.
Shawn Mullins
#6. 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
#7. In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
Robert Wyatt
#8. If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
Guy Kawasaki
#9. All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
Moliere
#10. Pride sits in all our hearts by nature. We are born proud. Pride makes us rest satisfied with ourselves, thinking we are good enough as we are. It closes our ears against all advice, refuses the gospel of Christ and turns every one to his own way.
J.C. Ryle
#11. I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. 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. The good news is that being in gratitude does not require time and money. All it requires is an attitude of being grateful.
Vishwas Chavan
#15. Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana Maharshi
#16. People abusing their power makes me see red.
Neil Jackson
#17. My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
Aaron Paul
#18. Again and opened the other. This is my financing.
Ken Follett
#19. I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.
Jonathan Trigell
#20. 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
#21. She savored the relaxed intimacy of these morning walks with him, before the daily demands of their jobs and ambitions rendered them each stressed and exhausted.
Lisa Genova
#22. How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
Frederick Lenz
#23. If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us.
Ricky Hatton
#24. 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
#25. 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