Top 205 Misuse Quotes & Sayings

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

If you don't abdicate or misuse your power, pressure takes you into realization.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

Singleness is a gift; marriage is a gift. We should not misuse the gifts we've been given.

Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

'Secularism' is the most misused word in the country. Its misuse should come to an end.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

It always had occurred to me that drugs misuse was obviously a major driver of demand in the criminal justice system.

You have to respect the existence of God. If He has given you the power to throw your weight around, then you mustn't misuse it.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't caught up yet.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

No one will be allowed to misuse our soil.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

I want to use but not misuse my position as President of the General Assembly.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

In Europe, we would congratulate anyone who is successful. But congratulations stop if we find that you start to misuse a dominant position.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.