Top 1200 Abuse And Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

And in the wake of Trump's elections, there have been reports across the country of intimidation, harassment and violence against those very groups. So if Trump is serious about unifying the country, if this is a thing he wants to do, then I think he needs to immediately speak against these acts of intimidation, harassment and violence that are happening to some degree in the name of the campaign that he ran.

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

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse.

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

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

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

It is an honor to be with thousands of leaders from around the world who are united in their mission to eradicate violence against women. Avon is proud to share their commitment to this goal. We are honored to be a leading supporter of the 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters, and are grateful for the work that all of you do day in and day out to ensure that women across the world can find ways to live their lives free of violence.

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

We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter movement. We see it among black youth who are now struggling and trying to make connections internationally with other groups and trying to figure out what's going on in the world and the ways things like police violence and systemic violence all come together under neoliberalism.

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see it in California where more prisons are being built than colleges. It goes on and on. We see it in a trillion-dollar war budget, politics becoming an extension of war rather than vice versa. This violence is like a fog. It covers everything.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

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

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

There will always be waste, fraud, and abuse. That's just life.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use.

Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

Dominant companies can't abuse their position to create advantage in related markets.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.