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If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.
— Stuart Aken
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
If you can't let go of the power you possess, if you can't surrender it gracefully when it is time to do so, you will most likely abuse it.
— Donald Cozzens
If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.
— Linda Pohl
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
— James F. Cooper
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
— Frederick Lenz
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
History is the study of the abuse of power.
— Marty Rubin
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.
— John Quincy Adams
Liberty ... is there only when there is no abuse of power.
— Baron De Montesquieu
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
— Edmund Burke
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?
— Benjamin Franklin
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You see, it has been my experience that no matter where you go, you will find some who abuse their power.
— Brandon Sanderson
power happily walks hand in hand with abuse
— Dean Cavanagh
If you can abuse your power you have too much.
— Marty Rubin
I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
— Terrence Howard
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
— William Shakespeare
The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.
— Henry Latham Doherty
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
— Babatunde Fashola
The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.
— Chris Bell
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
— Isabel Allende
Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.
— Frederick Lenz
There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.
— Joss Whedon
With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
— Judd Rose
All you care about is the control and power you have over me and I hate myself for giving that to you!
— Lydia Kelly
Life is power, don't abuse it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Because the child does not have the power to withhold consent, she does not have the power to grant it.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
— David Blunkett
I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power; but sure you have generosity enough not to abuse it.
— Mary Pierrepont
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
Imagination is an abuse of power.
— Johannes Grenzfurthner
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
— Samantha Power
Power without abuse loses its charm.
— Paul Valery
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
— James Madison
Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
— Ben Carson
Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
The first abuse of power is not realizing that you have it.
— James Richardson
The abuse of power takes happiness away.
— Frederick Lenz
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.
— George Washington
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
— James Madison
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
— Lincoln Steffens
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
— Brandon Sanderson
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
— J. Budziszewski
It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.
— Ian Gregoire
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
— Patricia Cornwell
How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.
— Frederick Lenz
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
— Alexander Hamilton
The strong were always eating the weak.
— James Rollins
great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,
— Charles Dickens
People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.
— Pieter-Dirk Uys
Stand up for yourself.Never give any one permission to abuse you. — Lailah Gifty Akita
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
— Warren Farrell
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
— Louisa May Alcott
Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.
— Elizabeth Bear
The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.
— Frederick Lenz
Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
— Thomas Jefferson
The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.
— Charles A. Reich
When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.
— Richard M. Nixon
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
— John Wycliffe
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
— Baron De Montesquieu
People abusing their power makes me see red.
— Neil Jackson
Abuse of power comes as no surprise
— Jenny Holzer