Quotes About Abuse

How do we still believe that human nature is not evil when 60 years old men rape 3 years innocent girls?

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Gloucestershire police must be the envy of the human rights-abusing cop world. From Turkey to Indonesia they will say, 'Kidnapping peace protestors! How did they get away with that one?'

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

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.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

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

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

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