"That anyone who possesses power has a tendency……" — Baron de Montesquieu
"That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow."
More Abuse Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
- Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
- I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
- Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
- Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
- We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
- What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
- When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
- The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
- And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
- I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand