Abuse of power comes as no surprise — Jenny Holzer
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse. — Stefan Molyneux
The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse. — Mike Cloud
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. — Edmund Burke
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it. — George Washington
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow. — Baron de Montesquieu
If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it. — Robert M. Sapolsky
These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power. — Trey Gowdy
Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power. — Newton Lee
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. — Baron de Montesquieu
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. — Montesquieu
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. — John Galt
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. — John F. Kennedy
Short Abuse Of Power Quotes
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. — John Adams
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. — Immanuel Kant
Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power. — Baron de Montesquieu
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. — Lamar S. Smith
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. — James Madison
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun
Politics is the exercise of power without merit. — Naval Ravikant
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. — Joe Eszterhas
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. — Eckhart Tolle
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Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. — Farley Mowat
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. — Louise Slaughter
Organized civil disobedience is the correct next response to the prolonged, indefinite and deliberate abuse of exotic emergency powers inconsistent with being a free people in our own country. I don’t want to go there, but it is time. — Eric Weinstein
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever. — Arundhati Roy
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.
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny. — Patrick Henry
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. — Henry Clay
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
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power. — David Ricardo
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all. — Oliver Ellsworth
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials. — Garry Kasparov
I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin. — Edmund Burke
It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. — Julian Assange
The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes. — Frederick Lenz
The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose. — Bob Marley
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state. — Ron Paul
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government. — James Madison
Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. — Monica Lewinsky
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
Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. — Charles Evans Hughes
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power. — Orson Welles
Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth. — Myles Munroe
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. — George Washington
The abuse of power takes happiness away. — Frederick Lenz
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority. — Ramsey Clark
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new. — Judd Rose
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. — Pete Stark
When people in power can operate in the dark, inevitably they abuse that power. So, you need outside forces to bring light and transparency to what they're doing. And, one of the ways you do that is through journalism, and through guaranteeing a free press. That is its purpose, to provide a check on those who wield power. — Glenn Greenwald
The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind
any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to
safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently
strong executive power, can protect us. — Albert Einstein
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