Abuse Quotes

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.

It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual expression.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

When those types of situations[like abuse] begin to occur in your life - I had bought in from a very early age that fundamentally something must be wrong with me.

When you go through abuse - the behavior - what happens is all behavior stems from faulty belief.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those who most deserve our care and protection.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

"...arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.