Items tagged as 'Abuse of Power'

Items tagged as 'Abuse of Power'

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Oh, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimida
The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

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