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.
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.
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.
Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
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.
Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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.
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.
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
The abuse of power takes happiness away.
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.
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