Abuse Quotes

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.

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

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

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

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

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

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with

I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.

Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Abuse directed at women is always sexual or violent.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.

The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.