(839 quotes found)
“You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.”
Michael Levy
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke
“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
Herbert Ward
“Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.”
Voltaire
“What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.”
Buddha
“She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”
William Shakespeare
“Power without abuse loses its charm”
Paul Valery
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
Aldo Leopold
“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu”
John Locke
“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”
James Madison
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