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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. — Cat Stevens

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. — Isaac D'Israeli

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families. — Bob Allen

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

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail. — Rafael Correa

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. — Bell Hooks

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. — James A. Garfield

Being overly critical of yourself is like having a relentless, inescapable bully who follows you everywhere you go and abuses you. — Bryant McGill

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes. — George Eliot

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it? — Benjamin Franklin

The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him. — Selena Haskins

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them — Noam Chomsky

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses. — James Madison

The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If one abuses or neglects internal powers, external forces will act accordingly. — T.F. Hodge

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried. — Charles Caleb Colton

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses. — Glenn Greenwald

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on. — Julian Assange

Every person who abuses another human will be penalized by God. God will deal with that person. — Mike Murdock

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. — Leopoldo Lopez

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power. — Frederick Lenz

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation! — Apolinario Mabini

For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows. — Kay Hagan

If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses. — Peter Tatchell

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege. — Leon Trotsky

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. — Malcolm Gladwell

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking

My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome. — Bryant H. McGill

Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family. — Stefan Molyneux

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses. — Thomas Jefferson

The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education. — Thomas Jefferson

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. — Leon Trotsky

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. — Sigmund Freud

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. — Samantha Power

Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness. — Tzvetan Todorov

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back. — Michka Assayas

To destroy abuses is not sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the wind is still there. — Victor Hugo

We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. — Jerry Brown

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman

No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121 — William Shakespeare

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise. — Pope Francis

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It's just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it. - excerpt from: freefalling — Darlenne Susan Girard

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses. — Raul Castro

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents? — Michael Connelly

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses. — Pat Buckley

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. — James Madison

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

My past haunts me, my present screws me, my future scares me. In a nutshell, time physically abuses me — Saurabh Sharma

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect. — Heather Brooke

if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly. If — Miguel Ruiz

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick

One who abuses his power, unaware that one day will be the victim of his own abuses — Miguel El Portugues

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. — Andrew Cuomo

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell. — James Bovard

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street. — Andrew Cuomo