Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retalia...

Russell Means

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience sh...

The Spirit of the Laws

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.

John Wycliffe

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more tran...

Julian Assange

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Stuart Aken

Another reason abusers don’t want to give up the ‘power’ is that they don’t want to give up the power.

Torn From the Inside Out

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often wielded in the background until its results manifest themselves in the offline world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

Dean Cavanagh

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Paul Valery

Any powerful technology can be abused.

K. Eric Drexler

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

People abusing their power makes me see red.

Neil Jackson

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Lincoln Steffens

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Federalist Papers By James Madison: Federalist No. 10, Federalist No. 45, Federalist No. 51, Federalist No. 44, Federalist No. 47

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

Terrence Howard

The literature on ritualistic abuse suggests that ritualistic sexual practices with young children are a characteristic of particularly abusive groups, and that such practices typically occur alongside a diverse range of other abusive practices, such...

Organised Sexual Abuse

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

Judd Gregg