Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Power comes from knowledge and knowledge comes with natural beauty in one's self.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

War is a need by a country that wants power, but the USA is already great

Music

If only I had used my powers for good instead of for trivia!

Life

Words have no power, unless you give it to them.

Love

There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

Vince Gilligan

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

William Blake

Addiction suppresses the soul that lacks the support and will power to overcome.

Wayne Chirisa

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

Yoko Ono

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

Amanda Lindhout

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

Judith Light

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Les Dawson

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abu...

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

At first you might wonder what you did to deserve such treatment. Nothing, probably, so that doesn't matter. What matters is that, eventually, the abuse becomes the status quo. It's no longer about the whats and whys (“what did I do?” “why are ...

Freaky Freshman: A Memoir of Bullying and Social Anxiety

I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now you can drown in the stink or turn it into compost and grow a garden. I wouldn't't be as good a teacher to you ...

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

I don’t like seeing you hit.” “Well, to be quite honest, I don’t like being hit unless it’s by you.” As soon as it was out of my mouth, I realized what I had said. “That sounded all sorts of wrong.” “Insanely so, actually.” “To ...

Fate Succumbs

I just can’t think of anybody abusing an animal; nor of allowing it to stay around, sick, hurt or hungry. I think that an animal is but a point short of human; and, having a skin varying but slightly from our own, will know as much pain from a whip...

Gadsby

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agenda by stealth, yet another abuse of the democratic ...

Harperland: The Politics Of Control

Let’s face it: suffering discredits goodness. I’m agnostic in practice though faith-based in theory. I used to pray but now know he’ll do what he darn well pleases when he darn well pleases. Will he listen? Maybe. We have a book that says so, b...

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

People accuse me of having interiorized a feeling of racial inferiority, so that I attack my own culture out of self-hatred, because I want to be white. This is a tiresome argument. Tell me, is freedom then only for white people? Is it self-love to a...

Infidel

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but al...

In the Shadow of the Cross

What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and over What's so great about a life that's sober? There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun. ...

Last Night I Sang to the Monster