The misuse of language induces evil in the soul. — Socrates
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. — Bob Dylan
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. — Muhammad Iqbal
Use the right word, not its second cousin. — Mark Twain
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. — James Thurber
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. — B. R. Ambedkar
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — Larry Flynt
I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god. — Marilyn Manson
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. — Napoleon Hill
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. — Pope John Paul II
Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress — Paul Feyerabend
Worry is a misuse of the imagination!
Power Misuse Quotes
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people. — John Le Carre
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
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. — Hans Kung
If you are using words to hurt others, you are misusing them.
Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms. — Mark Pellegrino
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have. — Richard Rohr
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal. — Mahatma Gandhi
Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can I blame religion? Patriotism too can be misused, by misinforming others and eliminating people, so do we start hating the country? — Asghar Ali Engineer
African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power. — Ras Baraka
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
And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad. — Angelina Jolie
Use And Misuse Quotes
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it. — A.C. Grayling
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse. — Edward Bernays
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes. — Cliff Stearns
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician. — Gayl Jones
One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue. — Michael Botticelli
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine
Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow. — Octavia Butler
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
I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too. — Katherine Anne Porter
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
Don't Misuse Quotes
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. — Larry Flynt
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. — Anthony Bourdain
I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day — Phil Simms
If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it. — Craig Groeschel
I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it. — Elie Wiesel
If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization. — John de Ruiter
Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz
Misused Words Quotes
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. — Tommy Lasorda
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism. — Jim Leach
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully. — Margaret Heffernan
Coward is the most misused word in our society. — Doug Stanhope
The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic...
Be Impeccable with Your Word. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit. — Ludwig von Mises
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. — Rooney Mara
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. — Joyce Meyer
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice. — Agnes Repplier
Mismanagement Quotes
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. — Ernest Hemingway
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. — Milton Friedman
Food price inflation is running at 13% in Ireland. The people creating policy are laughably unserious. The government is borrowing money to give to farmers to destroy the food supply. This is Robert Mugabe economic policy. — Philip Pilkington
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. — Pauline Hanson
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them. — Ralph Nader
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about? — June Jordan
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. — Milton Friedman
Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way. — Ruben Papian
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. — Dan Quayle
A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. — Ambrose Bierce
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
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. — Michael Kinsley
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action. — Moshe Feldenkrais
The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. — Ludwig von Mises
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
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity. — Martin Luther
But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. — Jordan Belfort
Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. — Doug Bandow
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
The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work. — Daniel H. Pink
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused. — Hermann Hesse
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors. — Woody Harrelson
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest. — Theodor Adorno
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase. — Bhagat Singh
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
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. — Phyllis Mcginley
Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it. — Geoffrey Hinton
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman. — Fanny Fern
Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible. — Carl Sagan
LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. — Edsger Dijkstra
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean? — Andy Andrews
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking. — Bergen Evans
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake
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