Misuse Quotes

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The reward for using the atom's power towards man's welfare is great and sure. The punishment for its misuse would seem to be death and the destruction of the civilization that has been growing for a thousand years.

The temptation to misuse public policy is almost irresistible.

The worst corruption is a corrupt religion.

Nothin'g sa'ys q'uality fantas'y l'ike misuse'd apos'tro'phes.

You are unjustified if you use the Koran to justify murder.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

[A] privilege takes flight when abused.