Abuse Quotes

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma Gandhi

Nature, Anger, Human

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington

Jealousy, May, Liberty

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald Reagan

Forget, Everything, America

There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.
Charlie Sheen

Play, Dark, After

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.
Ernest Hemingway

Understand, Become, Difficult

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

Happy, Nor, Neither

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Great, Society, Words

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.
Kenny Guinn

Best, Children, Service

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold

Love, Respect, May

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.
Zora Neale Hurston

Good, Feeling, Pay

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.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
Ben Stein

Funny, Good, Experience

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke

Power, Dangerous, Greater

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

Argument, Basis

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Caring, Nation, Alive

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

Drunk, Children, Law

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

Power, May, Liberty

I've seen firsthand the terrible consequences of drug abuse. My heart is with all who suffer from addiction and the terrible consequences for their families.
Columba Bush

Heart, Addiction, Seen

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

Power, Government, Human

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean de La Fontaine

Love, Power, Truth

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

Less, Simply, Fraud

My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.
Ronnie James Dio

Education, Work, Family

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis

Good, Yourself, Tell

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
Louise Slaughter

Government, Integrity, Honesty

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
Judd Rose

Power, Crazy, Nothing

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

Women, Alone, Woman

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

Power, Evil, Root

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

Yourself, Thought, Die

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.
Alanis Morissette

Power, Society, Someone

Pity is a benign form of abuse.
Michael J. Fox

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