Abuse Of Power Quotes

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

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Political, Abuse

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.84

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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

  Mike Cloud

  Political, Abuse, Problem

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse, Welfare

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  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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Business, Stupid, Government

  "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.

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• Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

  Newton Lee

  Information Is Power, Abuse, Information

  Newton Lee (2014). “Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness”, p.169, Springer

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Loyalty, Attitude, Men

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Believe, Roots, Evil

  "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.

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

  James Madison

  Power, Hands, Essence

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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

  Stefan Molyneux

  Abuse, Problem

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

  Benjamin Carson

  Abuse, May, Wells

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• A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

  "If Elected, I Promise: 1001 Jokes, Toasts, Stories, and Gems of Wisdom by and about Politicians". Book by John Francis Parker, 1960.

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

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Presidential

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• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  Ted Nugent

  Government, Abuse, Deceit

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• 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.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, People, Abuse

  Source: www.soldefter.com

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• We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Abuse, Purpose, May

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The abuse of power takes happiness away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Abuse

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Abuse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  Jimmy Reid

  Jobs, Boys, Government

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Abuse, Groups

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• 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.

  David Wong

  People, Decision, Abuse

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Abuse, Liberty

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.184, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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