Abuse Of Power Quotes

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  It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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• 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

  Government, Abuse, Deceit

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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• Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

  Newton Lee

  Information Is Power, Abuse, Information

  Newton Lee (2014). “Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness”, p.169, Springer

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• The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

  Mike Cloud

  Political, Abuse, Problem

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• 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

  Abuse, Purpose, May

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• 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

  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Presidential

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• It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Abuse, Problem

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Abuse, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.184, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  Jimmy Reid

  Jobs, Boys, Government

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Abuse, Wealth

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• A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Political, Abuse

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.84

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• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Believe, Roots, Evil

  "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.

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• An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Attitude, Men

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• The abuse of power takes happiness away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse

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• 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

  Anger, Abuse, Betrayed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

  Judd Rose

  Crazy, Boss, Abuse

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• The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• 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

  Independent, House, Abuse

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• The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  People, Empowering, Abuse

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• Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

  Clint Eastwood

  Country, Power, Guy

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• Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Real, Political, Abuse

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.21, Signal

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• 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

  Running, People, Abuse

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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