Misuse Quotes - Page 2

• Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

  Mark Pellegrino

  People, Broken, Use

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• Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

  Ron Paul

  Gun, Might, Firsts

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2013

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• Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Separation, Wealth, Ownership

  Dissent, Liggett Co. v. Lee, 288 U.S. 517, 1933.

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• The Congress' name of 'INC' must be changed to 'Institutions Neglecting Congress'. Their habit is to misuse, abuse and reduce institutions.

  Narendra Modi

  Names, Abuse, India

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• There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

  Frank Herbert

  Powerful, Government, Judging

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.180, Penguin

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• I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Drunk, Lines

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious

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• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.

  Frederick Soddy

  Military, Science, Men

  "In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy" by New Europe Group, 6-7, 1956.

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• If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Reserves, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.

  Bayard Rustin

  Inspirational Love, Children, Men

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and deliberations appear credible. They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.

  Timothy Ball

  People, Deception, Abuse

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• Worry is a misuse of your imagination.

  Chris Hardwick

  Imagination, Worry

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• Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Smart, Mean

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law.

  Arun Jaitley

  Law, Virtue, Legislation

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• This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Trials, Forget

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

  Paul Feyerabend

  Discovery, Progress, Language

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.18, Verso

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• You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

  John Green

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.86, Penguin

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• These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Wise, Book, Hands

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

  Charles Dickens

  Effort, Cost, Littles

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.307, GENERAL PRESS

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• but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Immune, Nations

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.

  Woody Harrelson

  Animal, Doors, Years

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