Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

Gloria Estefan

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Eric Sevareid

An attitude of gratitude is life's most powerful affirmation

Angie Karan Krezos

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

Grover Norquist

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would not amount to anything; perhaps this did effect in him an inordinate drive for power for power’s sake. But all this would be q...

The Power Elite

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are ...

Frank Herbert

Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. Amon Goeth: You think that's power? Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on...

Schindler's List

I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't." For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.

Claim Me

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Emma

when exactly do the abuses that have been tolerated for so long become intolerable? When does the fear evaporate and the rage generate action that produces joy?

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

The main factor that makes leadership potentials to become abused often is ignorance. Many people can merely spell their names in alphabets, but cannot pronounce their brands!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

If you don't like something... Don't accept it but leave it alone! Don't ever hurt it! There's never a reason to ABUSE anything! not even a tree!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

In the eyes of children we are their: Superheroes, Saviors, Sunshine. Try not to hurt them and never ever abuse them...mentally, verbally or physically!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

Black List

To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.

Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

Mickey Rooney