Imagination is an abuse of power. — Johannes Grenzfurthner
Abuse of power comes as no surprise — Jenny Holzer
The abuse of power takes happiness away. — Frederick Lenz
Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power. — Newton Lee
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power. — Baron de Montesquieu
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — William Shakespeare
The problem isn’t the abuse of power; it’s the power to abuse. — Mike Cloud
Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth. — Myles Munroe
It’s not just the abuse of power that’s the problem. It’s the power to abuse. — Stefan Molyneux
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. — Isabel Allende
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. — Lincoln Steffens
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with — Benjamin Carson
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power. — Rebecca MacKinnon
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new. — Judd Rose
African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power. — Ras Baraka
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. — Aldous Huxley
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections. — John Quincy Adams
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. — Sathya Sai Baba
It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns. — Sal Albanese
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. — Jean de La Fontaine
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power. — Ron Paul
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. — George Catlin
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. — John Roberts
Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic – or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power. — Irving Kristol
The ’80s made up for all the abuse I took during the ’70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. — Louise Slaughter
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. — Mahatma Gandhi
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted. — Sanna Lenken
The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government. — Harry Reid
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful. — Frederick Lenz
The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes. — Frederick Lenz
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. — Terry Southern
Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable. — Edward Kennedy
The president’s attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him…. Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power. — Cliff Asness
The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, – and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. — Pete Stark
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment. — Edward Gibbon
My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. These are things everybody should care about, and resources should be available for families. — Martha McSally
It’s funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I’ve had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it’s just because they don’t behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power. — Ryan Reynolds
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. — Atifete Jahjaga
Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever. — Arundhati Roy
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves. — Joseph Sobran
It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms to dissent and criticize those in power help keep abuses of power in check. They combat tendencies of elites to become isolated from and ignorant of the people they deeply affect through their decisions. — David Wong
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny. — Patrick Henry
