Nell Scovell Quotes

When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

Given free play, the best policemen act badly more often than not, which is why they are given free play on any large scale only when their employers discern some social utility in their acting badly.

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

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

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

Sexual Harassment ... unwanted sexual advances against women employees by male supervisors, bosses, foremen or manager

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

I haven't faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don't have the guts to name them because they are powerful people - men and women who made sure I felt helpless.

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

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

There is casting couch in the Malayalam industry.

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.

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

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

I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.

Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but I don't deny its existence.

When someone is humiliating and harassing a woman, he must be knowing that the victim is needy and left with no option but to tolerate such harassment to save the job.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.