Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Robert Casey

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Marya Mannes

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

Kevyn Aucoin

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Dan Fogelberg

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

George Jackson

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

John A. Powell

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Antoine Rivarol

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Warren E. Burger

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

Sherwood Boehlert

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Carre Otis

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

John Yoo

Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these...

Infidel

One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I kn...

Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: , the Jain patriarch, surpassed...

Letter to a Christian Nation

Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong about hunger, but there is something wrong about gluttony; there is no sin in thirst, but there is a sin in drunkenness; ...

Three to Get Married

If children matter, than whom more to stand in the gap than their parents; yet sadly, the parents (or a parent) can ironically become the chief enemy for which the children may hold in contempt…rather than care. Under the “abuse card”, the cust...

A Once and Always Father

Non-professionals can also misrepresent the personal characteristics, religious beliefs, and appearance, of these therapists, can name-call and otherwise mock them, and can attribute false agendas to them, such as assigning religious motives to secul...

Ellen P. Lacter

Secrets are powerful, and this was one of the most powerful of all.

Reborn

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Daniel Webster

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

Alexandra Paul

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

Betty Ford