Quotes About Abuse

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

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

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Anybody abuse rental cars? The thing that bothers me is when you have to return one with a full tank of gas. You know what I do now? I just top it off with a garden hose.

He who can deliberately inflict torture upon an animal, in order to heighten the pleasure his palate is to receive in eating it, is an abuser of the authority which God has given him, and is, indeed, a tyrant in his heart.

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

Information is power," she continued. "Any organization with power and that operates under a cloak of secrecy and darkness becomes a breeding ground for monstrous abuse, no matter how good-intentioned the goals are initially.

The law wasn't perfect, but anytime those who had the power to twist it did so, it grew more grotesque.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Self-esteem can be defined as the state that exists when you are not arbitrarily haranguing and abusing yourself but choose to fight back against those automatic thoughts with meaningful rational responses.

The silent voices, unheard even in the twentieth century–the prisoners, the institutionalised patients, the casually abused–are silent in the historical record because they had very little influence over their personal fate or their city's shape.

Surrender to anything other than love would be idiocy. Alarm bells should go off when we hear of people surrendering to abusive relationships. Surrender involves too much vulnerability to be a responsible action in relation to anything other than unconditional love. Ultimately, of course, this means that absolute surrender can only be offered to Perfect Love. Only God deserves absolute surrender, because only God can offer absolutely dependable love.

What if a chemical, either found in nature or cooked up in a lab, could tap into the motivational circuit and drive dopamine neurons artificially from within the brain? Intriguingly, this may be exactly how drugs of abuse work. Although different drugs of abuse have distinct molecular targets and very different behavioral effects, they all drive the electrical activity of dopamine neurons or the release of dopamine from these cells (while nonaddictive brain-targeted drugs like Prozac do not).5

She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.

One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get away with it.