Top 1200 Abuse And Violence Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.

We need to close the loopholes that allowed large corporations to abuse the Paycheck Protection Program.

If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.

The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.

People always think that domestic abuse is something that you live with and get over. But no. You have mental scars.

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined.

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

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

Actually, I can't stand watching violent scenes in films; I avoid watching horror films. I don't tend to watch action films mainly because I find them boring, but I watch the films of David Cronenberg and Martin Scorsese, usually in a state close to having a heart attack. I'm a complete coward. I make violent films as a result of my sensitivity to violence - in other words, my fear of violence.

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

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so wonderful and loved.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

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

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

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

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.

Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.

Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to speak up and step in when they witness violence against women, and it is up to men to condemn the indefensible actions of the few and assert the will of the many.

Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.

The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

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

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

If you live in a society where those who govern society and determine its path do not respect freedom of speech and freedom of religion, freedom of choice, freedom of assembly, and if there is no democratic process and no way to change the order of things by reason and peace and love and so on, and if, as a result of that, certain ideas in which you believe are being crushed, then I think the only way you can defend yourself against this violence is in using violence of your own.

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.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

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

The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.