Famous Quotes & Sayings

We condemn all acts of abuse and brutality.

Anthony Romero

When our leaders allow and even encourage abuse at the 'outer limits', America suffers. A nation that works to bring freedom and liberty to other parts of the world shouldn't stomach brutality and inhumanity within its ranks. This abuse of power was engineered and accepted at the highest levels of our government.

We would like to know what happened, and one scenario is that Toga is no longer with us. The opposition is that somebody who knew what they were doing actually stole him for a private collector. In that case, there's a possibility that Toga is still alive somewhere. We prefer to think of that option, but to be honest, we may never know. We've had to increase our security here so much, which is such a shame that people abuse the trust and health of these animals in such a way.

Vandana Shiva

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

We are shocked and dismayed at the mistreatment and abuse displayed in these images.

Stella Young

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.

Susan Clark

Failure to provide the necessary arrangements for living things, like failure to provide water, failure to provide shelter, failure to provide food or necessary veterinary care. Those all constitute animal abuse or neglect.

Families, communities and law enforcement must work together to stop the effects of underage drinking. These awards fund initiatives to assist youth in preventing alcohol and substance abuse by strong enforcement of laws and zero tolerance for those who provide alcohol to minors. In addition, prevention programs will assist youths and their families with developing alternatives to drinking.

Penny Pritzker

I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.

Dusty Baker

You know how I feel about the guy -- I love the guy. I would've loved to have played with him, and behind him. I've enjoyed watching him here with us. He's one of the few guys I've had who has earned the right -- and you know he's not going to abuse the right -- to call his own shots. This guy is a pro. You don't know he's around. He never boasts or brags.

Hector Ruiz

Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and regulatory agencies continue to go after them.

John Gallagher

Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel safe in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.

Microsoft is trying to turn this into an intellectual property case when it's not...This is a case about abuse of a dominant position, about refusing to provide information to vendors.

Howard Dean

Voters don't like the abuse of power, they don't like the culture of corruption.

We evaluate all conduct related to substance abuse and it is handled confidentially by the doctors.

We have a very serious problem with eminent domain abuse in this state. It's disappointing that the governor and the Legislature doesn't recognize that.

Lemmy Kilmister

One thing I am very glad of is that I went through the sixties. People who didn't really don't know what they missed. We pushed a certain consciousness, a way of life and it was exciting - no AIDS, people weren't dying so much from drug abuse and it was truly a time of freedom and change.

On the eve of this five-day hearing, it is important to go back to basics. This case involves a clear abuse of market power by a super-dominant company using its monopoly power in one market -- PC client operating systems -- to foreclose competition on the merits in two others -- media streaming applications and work group servers.

One of the cardinal features of addiction is how long-lived it is, ... A key question in the field has been: By what mechanisms do drugs of abuse cause changes in the brain that last this long?

Frank Serpico

We can still holler and shout but we have to light the lamps that shed the light on corruption, injustice, ineptitude and abuse of power. When we do, you will see the villains scurry into the woodwork the way roaches do when you turn on the light.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

Scott Turow

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject to such extraordinary abuse is always lurking beneath the surface for me. Certainly my experience and identity as a Jew is there.

We don't have the depth of a Stevens Point or a D.C. Everest, but we have just as many studs, if not more. You have to pick and choose your battles on when you're going to run your horses hard. We have to abuse some of our better guys in the big meets. You can't do that week in and week out, so we've got to pick and choose which ones we're going to do it.

We are opening it up to the community at large because child abuse has no ZIP code.

Graeme Smith

Our guys are pretty upset about it, something needed to be done. We expected to cop a bit of abuse but this was pushing the limits.

Over the past several months, I have received reports of serious physical abuse of detainees by ISF (Iraqi Security Forces).

My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just don't abuse it. Excessive amounts aren't good for you.

Bill Johnson

Many have never received praise, have never achieved top grades or are not the top athletes, but who come to school with burdens each day and still do well. They may be physically challenged or have suffered abandonment or abuse by their parents, they face all sorts of real obstacles.

Well, these photographs are out and what really remains to be seen is how the government will respond to them. Will the government take this opportunity to really do an independent investigation into why this abuse happened and who is ultimately responsible for it ?

Lincoln Steffens

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Cotton Mather

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives