Abuse Quotes

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!

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

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

Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade MacDonald abuses the privilege.

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

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

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

There's two types of hecklers. If someone says something really funny it's normally them heckling as part of the show. They're trying to add onto one of your jokes. If someone says something really funny, I've never seen a comedian abuse them, you always sort of tip your hat a little bit if they nail it.

The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

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

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

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

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

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

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

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

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

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

An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.

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

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

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

It doesn’t much matter what line of argument you take as a woman. If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It’s not what you say that prompts it - it’s the fact that you are saying it.

The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

"No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you... Declining to hear "no" is a signal that someone is either seeking control or refusing to relinquish it.

More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.

I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law.