Quotes About Misuse
there is no greater force within creation than the free will of beings endowed with self-consciousness and spiritual intellect; and so the misuse of this free will can have altogether terrifying consequences.
~ Kallistos Ware
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Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
~ Youssou N'Dour
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Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.
~ Frank Sheed
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Technically," M-Bot said, hovering a few centimeters closer to him, "the word 'sentient' just means an ability to perceive and/or feel. Many people misuse this word. Instead, 'sapience' is the word for self-awareness—or intelligence like a human being. Which if you think about it is a human-centric definition. Those rascally humans and their linguistic biases.
~ Brandon Sanderson
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We see the pain caused by the misuse of power, so we numb our pain and lose track of our own power. We become terrified of feeling pain, so we engage in behaviors that become a magnet for more pain. We run from anger and grief straight into the arms of fear, perfectionism, and the desperate need for control.
~ Brene Brown
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It's really awful that the same substances that take the edge off anxiety and pain also dull our sense of observation. We see the pain caused by the misuse of power, so we numb our pain and lose track of our own power. We become terrified of feeling pain, so we engage in behaviors that become a magnet for more pain. We run from anger and grief straight into the arms of fear, perfectionism, and the desperate need for control.
~ Brene Brown
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She was suffering the first pang of maturity's burden, the knowledge of responsibility misused.
~ Henry Kuttner
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
~ Herbert Spencer
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Sin, in its simplest definition, is the misuse or abuse of anything GOD created.
~ TemitOpe Ibrahim
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Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.
~ Stephen Richards
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I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.
~ Stephen Richards
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So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building out something that's a hashtag, is that so many people can take it and run with it. The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it - and misuse it and co-opt it.
~ Patrisse Cullors
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Vi er bare oppfinnsomme når det gjelder å mishandle oss selv, det er det virkelige bytte for vår åndskraft - et farlig redskap når det er i uorden!
~ Michel de Montaigne
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Every human is a magician, and in the interaction between the magicians, there are spells being cast everywhere. How? By misusing the word, by taking everything personally, by distorting everything we perceive with assumptions, by gossiping and spreading emotional poison with the word. Humans cast spells mainly upon the people we love the most, and the more authority we have, the more powerful the spells.
~ Miguel Ruiz
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Because the word is the magic that humans possess and misuse of the word is black magic, we are using black magic all the time without knowing that our word is magic at all.
~ Miguel Ruiz
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When we see the world through a computer virus, it is easy to justify the cruelest behavior. What we don't see is that misuse of our word is putting us deeper into hell.
~ Miguel Ruiz
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Hacemos un mal uso de las palabras con gran frecuencia, y así es como creamos y perpetuamos el sueño del infierno
~ Miguel Ruiz
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There is a connection, and a close connection, for most unions most of the time. However, there are enough cases of union officials acting to benefit themselves at the expense of their members, both in legal ways and by misuse and misappropriation of union funds, to warn against the automatic equating of the interests of labor unions with the interests of labor union members, let alone with the interests of labor as a whole.
~ Milton Friedman
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Once an object escapes, you have to assume that another class or thread may, maliciously or carelessly, misuse it. This is a compelling reason to use encapsulation: it makes it practical to analyze programs for correctness and harder to violate design constraints accidentally.
~ Brian Goetz
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I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.
~ C.D. Wright
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There are so many examples of human misuse of the Earth that even phrasing this question chills me. If there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes. The existence of an independent biology on a nearby planet is a treasure beyond assessing, and the preservation of that life must, I think, supersede any other possible use of Mars.
~ Carl Sagan
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As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse.
~ Carl Sagan
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Due to our own actions or inactions, and the misuse of our technology, we live at an extraordinary moment, for the Earth at least - the first time that a species has become able to wipe itself out. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars.
~ Carl Sagan
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Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
~ Jonathan Lethem
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