Abuse Power Quotes

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

The shortest way to ruin a country is to give power to demogogues.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

I consider [Martin Luther] King to be the most notorious liar in the country—one of the lowest characters in the country and controlled by the communists.

When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

I'm guilty as sin. I did something morally wrong. I gave in to the prestige and power, the things that went with my job. I knew that the Governor, the man that appointed me, wanted no recommendation for clemency in any death case.

The sovereignty of states is a fairly archaic notion. If the rulers abuse their power and the people, what do you do then. The must be an international duty to protect.

We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn't really matter how many times they do it.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The right divine of kings to govern wrong.

It seems to me virtually any ideology, no matter how intrinsically benign, can be used to oppress. And any group with power, no matter how well-meaning, ultimately corrupts and ends up exploiting its advantage to some extent.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.

Never had mortal man such opportunity Except Napoleon, or abused it more.

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

The chief bandit is the head of the state himself.

Since the origin of the world there has never been a king—even if you were to select the very best—who did not in some measure abuse his authority…

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?