Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral.

Joseph Conrad

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

Jermain Defoe

Lorenzo: There are no clear pictures of the sexual abuse we endured. I buried it as deep as it can possibly go.

Sleepers

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

Jim Diamond

Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

Ranbir Kapoor

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

Andrew Cuomo

People ask, how can a person abuse a child? I ask, how can so many 'good' people not do anything about it?

Adrianne Simeone

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.

Brigid Brophy

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

William Nicholson

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

Camille Paglia

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

Robert Casey

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

Day Watch

This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of The...

David A. Bednar

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Jill Scott

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

Srikumar Rao

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Bev Perdue

I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

Jason Wu

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin