Abusive Authority Quotes

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

... too Orwellian to contemplate, they've gone way too far.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.