Abuse Quotes

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.

The problem isn't the abuse of power; it's the power to abuse.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

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

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Evil comes from the ABUSE of free will

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

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

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

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.