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A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 levelAt my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121 — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
