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Abuse Quotes

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.21, Signal

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.184, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Abbie Hoffman (1987). “Steal this Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America”, Penguin Group USA

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (1962*). “Treatise on the Love of God”, p.510, Aeterna Press

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”