Abuse Quotes

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

Now the sole remedy for the abuse of political power is to limit it; but when politics corrupt business, modern reformers invariably demand the enlargement of the political power.

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

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.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.

Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

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.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

I've never ever attacked someone who's been the victim who's been the victim of sexual abuse. Not only that, I've put people in jail who've been the victim of sexual abuse.

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.

Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands.