Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

If you can abuse your power you have too much.

Marty Rubin

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

James F. Cooper

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.

Nick Vujicic

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong ...

The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Words of Radiance

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Charles de Secondat

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.

Leopoldo Lopez

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Samuel Freeman Miller

There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

Basmah bint Saud

…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: “Ritual Abuse usually involves rep...

Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no ma...

Bliss

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.

Stefan Molyneux

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

Chris Bell

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to s...

Alex Gibney

The earth will support anything that supports life. What I have found after a soul retrieval is that one cannot "numb out" anymore. Each and every one of us must make personal and planetary decisions to stop abusing life. Whether a person a has to gi...

Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

Ritual abuse diagnosis research – excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R. Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse ...

Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations

During a period in which women and children’s testimony of incest and sexual abuse were gaining an increasingly sympathetic hearing, lobby groups of people accused of child abuse construed and positioned “ritual abuse” as the new frontier of di...

Michael Salter

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

All About Love: New Visions

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

Sarah Harrison

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Joss Whedon