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Quotes About Misuse

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.
~ Masayoshi Son
The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.
~ John Ratcliffe
There is no word in the English language that gets thrown around more freely by people who don't know what it means than "fascism." Indeed, the more someone uses the word "fascist" in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about.
~ Jonah Goldberg
You are a schmuck," I informed the hero. "You're not using the word correctly," he said. "Yes I am," I said.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Do you know who pays for socialized medicine? You do. And do you know what people do when they think it's abundantly free? They loot.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
Children and other Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories are particularly vulnerable to having the SSNs misused for synthetic identities.
~ Seth Moulton
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
~ Ellen Key
If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
~ Salvatore J. Cordileone
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Bodily delight is a sense experience, just like pure seeing or the pure feeling with which a lovely fruit fills the tongue; it is a great boundless experience which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the splendour of all knowing. Our acceptance of it is not bad; what is bad is that almost all men misuse and squander this experience, and apply it as a stimulus to the weary places of their life, a dissipation instead of a rallying for the heights.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
every weakness in a capable person is generally a strength abused. The same applies to culture.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Money is not evil anymore so than copper, lead, tin or iron which you find in the ground. All evil is due to ignorance or misuse of the mind's powers.
~ Joseph Murphy
This is why the camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time; and is why in turn I feel such rage at its misuse: which has spread so nearly universal a corruption of sight that I know of less than a dozen alive whose eyes I can trust even so much as my own.'   'If
~ Walker Evans
an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be regreted that this word, sentiment, which is meant to describe the poetical efforts of an artist living soul, has been misused and finally, ridiculed. Was there ever a great word that the masses did not try immediatly to cheapen and desecrate?) (...)
~ Wassily Kandinsky
The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
~ Billy Graham
War is a perversion of sex.
~ Alan Moore
There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
~ Richard Brautigan
My words, sometimes even my lack of words, have caused me much pain over the years. It hasn't always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have. Other times I have tried to say the right thing, but it came out the wrong way. Or I have said the right thing but in the presence of the wrong people or at the wrong time. There was just no shortage to the ways I could misuse my mouth.
~ Karen Ehman
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
~ William Cowper
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
~ Chuck Grassley
Everyone says "i will never" and "one should never" but, actually, "No one can Resist Miss-using Power (at-least ones) when they have it".
~ honeya
The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
~ Kjell Magne Bondevik