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Letter "A" » abuse of power
«Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.»
«There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire»
«The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, The Abuse
«The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, liable, lodged, lodges, lodging
«Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, endanger, endangered, The Abuse
«Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
| About:
Power,
Trust
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, animated, animates, entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, if not, prince
«Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened»
Author: Madame de Stael
| About:
Progress,
Science
| Keywords:
abuse of power, abusing, checks, increased, restrain, scientific, Scientific progress, strengthened
«Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
abused, abuse of power, arbitrary, established, licentiousness, ruins
«On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, candid, examination, factions, frequently, minority, produced, republics, trampling, turbulence
«No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
abused, abuse of power, abusing, bear, form of government, Human nature, remedy, safe, tyranny
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