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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

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters. — Anne Ursu

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

There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal. — Ellen Bass

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust. — Nick Vujicic

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

If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn ... if you live. — Frederick Lenz

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

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse. — Stefan Molyneux

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

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

This ain't my first rodeo!".

~R. Alan Woods [1999] — R. Alan Woods

You see, it has been my experience that no matter where you go, you will find some who abuse their power. — Brandon Sanderson

I don't like institutions that are beyond normal parliamentary scrutiny. It's an invitation to abuse of power, no matter how noble the intentions. — Stieg Larsson

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

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

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

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system. — John Fund

It is human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are. — Naomi Wolf

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it. — Henry Latham Doherty

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. — Rene Balcer

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

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

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power. — Julian Assange

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

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

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

The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use of language. — Nina Power

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

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused. — Bryant McGill

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. — Ted Nugent

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

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. — John Galt

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse. — Mike Cloud

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

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth. — Myles Munroe

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed, — Ron Paul

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

I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power. — Ted Cruz

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

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon

The strong were always eating the weak. — James Rollins

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power. — Newton Lee

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

The highest mode of corruption is the abuse of power. — Auliq Ice

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