Abuse Quotes
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You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
Margrethe Vestager
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One of the greatest challenges facing the economy is to achieve the most efficient use - not abuse - of natural resources
Pope Benedict XVI
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Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.
William Francis Buckley
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The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.
Peter Maurer
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Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
Benjamin Watson
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Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.
Dave Kopel
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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
William Gilbert
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Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse and negativity online.
Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
Rick Larsen
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It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
Monica Crowley
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People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.
Michael Jackson
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Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.
Newton Lee
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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
George Washington
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Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .
Ernest Renan
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Judd Rose
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All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.
Richard Aldington
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There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That's just life.
Scott Garrett
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Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.
Thomas Sowell
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ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA revelations played a big part but there are all sorts of other issues too, like inequality and gentrification in the Bay Area, and labor abuses everywhere from Amazon's warehouse, to Apple's factories, to start-ups like Uber and TaskRabbit.
Astra Taylor
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
William O. Douglas
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
Raul Castro
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More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.
Asha-Rose Migiro