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  • Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

    Government   Evil   Abuse  
  • Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

    Peace   War   4th Of July  
    George Washington (1783). “A circular Letter ... to ... W. Greene, Governor ... of Rhode Island”, p.11
  • The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

    "How Schumer and Dems may have sealed Gorsuch's confirmation" by Alex Diaz, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2017.
  • The reason I'm a Democrat is because the essence of the Democratic Party is an abhorrence for the abuse of power on the one hand, and the notion that everyone's entitled to be treated with dignity. That message never got through.

    Party   Hands   Essence  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

    Newton Lee (2014). “Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness”, p.169, Springer
  • It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms to dissent and criticize those in power help keep abuses of power in check. They combat tendencies of elites to become isolated from and ignorant of the people they deeply affect through their decisions.

    People   Decision   Abuse  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • The lust of dominion innovates so imperceptibly that we become complete despots before our wanton abuse of power is perceived; the tyranny first exercised in the nursery is exhibited in various shapes and degrees in every stage of our existence.

    Lust   Abuse   Degrees  
  • 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.

  • Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

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

    Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016
  • The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.

  • It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  • I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history. What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

    Lauren Myracle (2013). “Bliss”, p.56, Abrams
  • The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

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

  • It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

    "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.
  • The abuse of power takes happiness away.

  • Abuse of power comes as no surprise

    Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
  • These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  • Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced by power itself. I have a reverence for individuality. I've always considered myself too individualistic to be either right-wing or left-wing. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. People should be able to be what they want to be and do what they want - as long as they're not harming other people. I am a libertarian.

    Country   Wings   Views  
  • Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

    Running   People   Abuse  
    Source: www.soldefter.com
  • Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

    Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.184, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
  • The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don't realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.

  • You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

    Source: collider.com
  • Imagination is an abuse of power.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

    "If Elected, I Promise: 1001 Jokes, Toasts, Stories, and Gems of Wisdom by and about Politicians". Book by John Francis Parker, 1960.
  • Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

    Country   Power   Guy  
  • The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

    Bullying   Freedom   Work  
    Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)
  • The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

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