Abuse Quotes

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

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

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

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.

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

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.

The abuse of power takes happiness away.

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

Most people abuse power. They use power to dominate others. They use power to destroy others. Ultimately when you do this, you lose it.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.