Abuse Quotes

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.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

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.

Domestic abuse is wrong, but domestic retribution is okay.

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.

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

...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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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

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.

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

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Well, I never been to SpainBut I kinda like the musicSay the ladies are insane thereAnd they sure know how to use itThey don't abuse it, never gonna lose itI can't refuse it.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

I used to be able to be in England and just be fine. No one had any idea who I was.I get a lot more abuse in England.

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.