Quotes About Misuse

Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas—than quantum mechanics.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

I said it was a brutal thing. No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes, but goes beyond, police reform.

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime.

The BJP, during its reign, has never misused Article 356.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

I am scared that if you make the technology work better, you help the NSA misuse it more. I'd be more worried about that than about autonomous killer robots.

Despite the intended purpose of 911 fees, some states have diverted these resources to nonrelated or, worse yet, nonpublic safety purposes.

Any tool can be used badly.

Look, there's no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than we are, and the way we continue to misuse antibiotics, it'll be sooner.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you'd be right.

Según la Administración Nacional de Seguridad de Tráfico en Carreteras (NHTSA), más del 80 por ciento de los asientos para niños están mal instalados.

But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. BOOK I

Those who follow or "worship" the path of selfishness and pleasure (Avidya), without knowing anything higher, necessarily fall into darkness; but those who worship or cherish Vidya (knowledge) for mere intellectual pride and satisfaction, fall into greater darkness, because the opportunity which they misuse is greater.

Misuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer is clothed with the authority of state law, is action taken 'under color of' state law."19