Top 1200 Abuse Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was.

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? Or maybe the people in Texas were attacked because of child abuse. But, if child abuse was the issue, why didn't Janet Reno tear-gas Woody Allen?

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

You talk about sexual abuse? Bill Clinton's wife ran the bimbo eruptions units when he was in the White House to seek and find the women who might accuse Bill Clinton of sexual abuse (and other things) and destroy them. And advertisers never leave the Clintons, and donors never leave the Clintons. Why is that? Because donors and advertisers never receive massive numbers of complaint emails from all of these Twitter and Facebook bots.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

The abuse of cabmen in a block.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

Although I haven't experienced violence in a relationship, I know that two women every week in England and Wales are killed by their partner or ex-partner, and that unless we act now, many more women will die because of domestic violence. We must speak out now against all forms of domestic violence, not only physical abuse but also the emotional, sexual and financial abuse which means that many women are afraid to be at home with their partner.

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress is checked, and the nations no longer march forward towards the nobler life which the future holds for man. Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day; but the denial stays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

While criticising, one must not abuse.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

Imagination is an abuse of power.

Mere abuse is no criticism.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

You can still get results without abuse.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

I can't get into unnecessary fights and abuse others.

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Use, don't abuse.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse and negativity online.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

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