Quotes About Misuse

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

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

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

affirmative action programs that were intended to broaden the leadership population have been so misunderstood and misused (by cynical white male managers far more than by minority applicants, it must be said) that their chief effect has been, perversely, to de-credential those minority achievers who rise entirely through diligence, industry, and learning.

drugs, hard. Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply of dangerous drugs should henceforth be in the hands of criminal organisations. Some people have argued that this is not an ideal arrangement.

Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply of dangerous drugs should henceforth be in the hands of criminal organisations. Some people have argued that this is not an ideal arrangement.

A sword in a madman's hand, and the word of God in some wicked man's mouth, are used much alike—to hurt only themselves and their best friends with.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination

words used wrong are like poison.

My experience tells me that API users are really creative. Sometimes the API user's horizon is farther than that of the API designer. If there is a way to misuse something, users are likely to do so.