Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Richard Avedon

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

Ruth Buzzi

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.

Rajeev Shukla

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Ricardo Semler

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

Ricky Williams

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Saul Alinsky

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

Our responsibility is to learn to draw upon the power of the Atonement. Otherwise, we walk through mortality relying solely on our own strength.

Sheri L. Dew

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

Salman Rushdie

Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

Samantha Stosur

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

Steven Wright

Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

Trevor Horn

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Thomas Malthus

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

Thomas Willis

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

Viggo Mortensen

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

Vladimir Putin

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky