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Abuses Quotes

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in it's abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does it's rains, shower it's favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing Picture Quote #1

I confess it is my nature's plague to spy into abuses; and, oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not Picture Quote #1

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it Picture Quote #1

Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to challenge, and no reason to complain. Here, we are all happy Picture Quote #1

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried Picture Quote #1

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary Picture Quote #1

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That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied Picture Quote #1

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses Picture Quote #1

These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one’s errors despite advice; refusal to change one’s ideas despite warnings Picture Quote #1

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society Picture Quote #1

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! Picture Quote #1

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars Picture Quote #1

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In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own Picture Quote #1

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise Picture Quote #1

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable Picture Quote #1

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten Picture Quote #1

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes Picture Quote #1

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate Picture Quote #1

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No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character Picture Quote #1

A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole Picture Quote #1

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power Picture Quote #1

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses Picture Quote #1

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in it's abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does it's rains, shower it's favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing (Abuses Quotes) I confess it is my nature's plague to spy into abuses; and, oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not (Abuses Quotes) The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it (Abuses Quotes) Here, in the land of happy thoughts, there are no gross injustices, no abuses of authority, no economic and political systems to challenge, and no reason to complain. Here, we are all happy (Abuses Quotes) Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried (Abuses Quotes) The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary (Abuses Quotes) That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied (Abuses Quotes) My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses (Abuses Quotes) These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one’s errors despite advice; refusal to change one’s ideas despite warnings (Abuses Quotes) The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society (Abuses Quotes) Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! (Abuses Quotes) The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars (Abuses Quotes) In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own (Abuses Quotes) A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise (Abuses Quotes) To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable (Abuses Quotes) The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten (Abuses Quotes) It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes (Abuses Quotes) An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate (Abuses Quotes) No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character (Abuses Quotes) A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole (Abuses Quotes) We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power (Abuses Quotes) Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses (Abuses Quotes)

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