Benjamin Watson Quotes

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

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

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

While our traditional authority has always been respected, sadly at times, it has also been abused.

Is there any way we can know that claims of state secrecy are in fact being used to protect the national security rather than to conceal the abuse of authority?

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

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

He who has the greatest power put into his hands will only become the more impatient of any restraint in the use of it.

More power than any good man should have, and more power than any other kind of man ought to have.

All governments are more or less corrupt.

The possession of power does not necessarily imply its unrighteous or oppressive use, although it generally awakes suspicion.

Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer.

This office has in recent decades, in my view, been seriously misused and distorted

Human experience long ago taught us that if we allow a man or group of men autocratic powers in government or church, that they use the powers to oppress and defraud the public..

I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.