Top 1200 Abuse Of Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

As a former victim of childhood sexual abuse, my position is unwavering when it comes to speaking out against the hypersexualization of our children.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

We have long noted Pelosi's abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Is discipline (both mental and physical) in place of coddling truly child abuse? I don't know, but it sure as hell is effective.

Places like Wrexham and Southport, when there are not that many people there, were tough. You are a young lad, and you're having abuse hurled at you.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.