Top 1200 Child Abuse Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away.

I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

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.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

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

One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it as child-killing. That reality is why the word abortion exists. Some words are created to cloak reality the same way procedures are created to cloak reality. "Abortion" is cloaked child-killing

Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good.

I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother more than all the rods, dark rooms, end scolding school-mistresses in the universe.

I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination.

I don't think it's fair that we cannot guarantee every child in this country a great education and that, in New York City, in some cases, your child is at risk in some part because of the policies the union endorses.

People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from the rain, I gaze upon snails. These are things which you often do when you are a child aren't they? I have a very similar sensibility to that.

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be acting differently. Sometimes these expectations run counter what is known about children's growth. They stem from remembering oneself, but usually at a slightly older age.

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

Since the conventional belief about human embryology is that genes control the development of the fetus, the mother's role in her child's gestation is deemed to be not much more than providing nutrition, feeding her child.

Whenever society begins to create policies and laws rooted in fear and anger, there will be abuse and injustice.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.

I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

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

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I've conducted investigations and written in newspapers about the homeless, the incarcerated, the sick excluded from care, about child labor, child exploitation, etc.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have to make their child characters smarter than adults, and suddenly kids have the vocabulary of a college grad.

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene.

You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

Gentle mockery or sharp satire aimed at Christians and their leaders have been replaced by abuse of Christianity itself.

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

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.

Most men are far younger when they have their children and they're building their careers. If they are older they probably don't have the luxury of retiring - and generally sixty something-year-old men don't choose to have a child and spend all their time with that child. So it was a very unique situation.

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

With the abuse, and wear and tear the body takes in this career, it's ridiculous to put in that time and effort and have nothing to show for it.

By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!