Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Raoul Vaneigem

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The Essence of Christianity

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Freedom from Fear

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Love

IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Breakaway: How I Survived Abuse

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Tori Amos

I'm not into abuse. It's a given that I'm gentle with you. You're a man, and not young anymore. - Hakuou

Unknown

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

Raul Castro

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

S. E. Hinton

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Kato Kaelin

Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Ronald Reagan

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

Maggie Q

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

Karen Mills

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Cat Stevens

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

Gabrielle Giffords