Abuse Of Power Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Roberts

  Government, Abuse, Ordinary

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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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• 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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• 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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• The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing self-inflicted curse of apathy and start demanding Constitutional accountability from our elected employees.

  Ted Nugent

  Heart, Self, Media

  "Ted Nugent on GOP: 'I pray to God they finally rediscover their scrotum'". Interview with Jared Boyd, www.al.com. July 20, 2016.

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• What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

  Isabel Allende

  Abuse, Impunity

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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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• 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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• The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

  John Quincy Adams

  Abuse, Guarantees, Election

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.52, e-artnow sro

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• An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

  Terry Southern

  Hero, Hypocrisy, Abuse

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  The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

  "The Patriotism Smear" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1783). “A circular Letter ... to ... W. Greene, Governor ... of Rhode Island”, p.11

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• These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Years, Priorities

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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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• Abuse of power comes as no surprise

  Jenny Holzer

  Abuse, Surprise

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  Sal Albanese

  Political, Abuse, Campaigns

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• The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Spiritual, Teacher

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Political

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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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• Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

  Patrick Henry

  Government, Evil, Abuse

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• Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

  Irving Kristol

  Responsibility, Abuse, Dodge

  New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1968.

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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• The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Hands, Essence

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Lust, Abuse, Degrees

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• Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

  Voltaire

  Happiness, Men, Advice

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