Best Abuse Of Power Quotes

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

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

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

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.

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

The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.

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

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.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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

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

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

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.

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

It’s so sad to me that people will protect a system that has abused them. And it’s what the people at the top count on.

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.

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

Exploitation is an abuse of power, an act of domination driven by basic insecurity. I think all hierarchies create opportunities for that. Donald Trump is an extreme illustration of an otherwise normal tendency. Institutions are supposed to have safeguards to prevent or mitigate the tendency. Instead they often become vehicles for abuse.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

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.

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

This is a time when the protections of Americans’ liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to constrain abuses of power for more than 200 years. The Supreme Court is relied upon by all of to us protect our fundamental rights.

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.

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

These last few years we’ve seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

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

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

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

It’s funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I’ve had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it’s just because they don’t behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

The Internet is an empowering force for people who are protesting against the abuse of power.

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