Quotes about abuse
abuse
The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education. Thomas Jefferson
abuse paper advantage
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.
abuse criticism irritated
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. Tacitus
abuse victim restitution
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse. Stefan Molyneux
abuse problem abuse-of-power
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
abuse wish want
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc. Soren Kierkegaard
abuse doubt society
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? William Winwood Reade
abuse rebuilding revolution
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. Richard Whately
abuse reform dangerous
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. Voltaire
abuse indirect species
Abuse is an indirect species of homage. William Hazlitt
abuse fuel waste
We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. Wendell Berry
abuse easier howl
It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. Vladimir Lenin
abuse culture
Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely. Rahm Emanuel
abuse applause
Applause is the beginning of abuse Ted Hughes
abuse body permission
You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. Scott Lynch
abuse way rooms
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do. Roy Harper
abuse normal hitting
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself. Tatum O'Neal
abuse domestic-violence overcoming
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
abuse entity corporate
Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it. Vince Cable
abuse trying made
I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself. Tasha Smith
abuse mental-illness cocaine
I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. Robbie Williams
abuse doe argument
Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade. Robert Green Ingersoll
abuse president waste
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars. Russ Carnahan
abuse liberty speech
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. William O. Douglas