Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Alison Pill

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

Bob Shacochis

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Benjamin F. Wade

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Carol Roth

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

Daniel Boone

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

Gloria Steinem

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Henry Adams

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

Lubna Olayan

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

Morgan Fairchild

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Robert Burton

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Rachel Griffiths

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

Alan Ball

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

Auliq Ice

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

Amit Kalantri

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

Anuj Somany

The power of a person's mind is in the strength at the depth of his heart through out the length of his life.

Anuj Somany

No one can take, nor steal what they did not give. They don't have power that role like that!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

Bill Dedman