Abuse Quote by George Washington Download Open image “Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.” — George Washington ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abuse Banking Love power Money Office Power Power of love Public office
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Being nice is okay,but don't allow anybody to abuse it...try to fight for your self when you know your on the right way... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'satanic ritual abuse' legitimated a programme of political and social… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
