Quotes about Abuse Potential

Bill Gates

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

Ann Widdecombe

l believe that if we were to legalize voluntary euthanasia then, no matter how tightly the law was framed, in ten years time no Granny would be safe.

Bob Barr

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

Suzanne La Follette

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

Joe Rogan

People say you can abuse marijuana. You can abuse cheeseburgers. Does that mean we should close Burger Kings.

Tim Cook

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Louis Freeh

We are the most scrutinized agency of the Federal government and we should be because of the enormous power we have and its potential for abuse

The director was being castigated for a series of blunders which had just culminated with the failure to disclose documents in their possession to the defense team in the Timothy McVeigh case.

William J. Bratton

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

Benjamin Spock

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Ziggy Marley

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

Tacitus

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

Thomas Jefferson

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Jonathan Rauch

The citizens of any particular country must be assigned the primary responsibility for judging their own leaders. The potential for abuse is simply too great, when judges wander across national borders.

America has quite often decided that foreign leaders were inadequate and detrimental to United States interests and then covertly and sometimes overtly attempted (and usually succeeded) to depose a foreign leader and manage a regime change. At the time of this quotation, we were in the aftermath of the George W. Bush regime change of the Iraq War. Judging a foreign leader from the outside and attempting a regime change is the most extensive form of interference in the internal affairs of another country.

George Bernard Shaw

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Abuse Potential Quotes