Top 1200 Abuse Of Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Many non-believers who have entered substance abuse programs have found themselves at odds with the religious overtones prevalent in the recovery industry.

There is female-on-male spouse abuse. There are women who hit their husbands. But there must have been something that caused that because otherwise it wouldn't have happened.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

I suffered racial abuse in Lithuania, and in two games the fans were making monkey noises and throwing coins at me.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

We all know that abuse, harassment, and worse have long invaded the entertainment ecosystem. That story goes back to the beginning of Hollywood... probably farther.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

I think when you provide something absolutely free, the potential of abuse exists. Getting an education without skin in the game is not good.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.