Abuse Quotes

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

Indecision is a form of self-abuse - be ready to step up!

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

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.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

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.

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

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

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

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

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.

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

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.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

I am of the level with common Astrologers; who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

Who will say with confidence that sexual abuse is more permanently damaging to children than threatening them with the eternal and unquenchable fires of hell?

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.