Abuse Quotes

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
Christopher Hitchens

Quite, Decent, Spite

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.
Angie Stone

Person, Giving, Might

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
E. W. Howe

Friends, Criticism, Expect

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

Society, Nothing, Nation

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
Tori Amos

Age, Technology, Made

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

Power, Fear, Impunity

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing, Liberty, Possession

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy, Statistics

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor

Yourself, Suffering, Ask

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.
Douglas Horton

Him, Friends, Unjustly

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter

Life, Beauty, Care

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
Pete Stark

Power, Government, Live

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Change, Time, Made

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

Home, Children, Cannot

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.
Louise Slaughter

Power, Cannot, Stand

Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery

Power, Charm, Loses

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

Double, Decline, Dose

My father told me abuse is generational.
Glenn Beck

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
Michael Gove

Children, Parents, Long

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
Jo Brand

Work, Felt, Audience

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith

Political, Law, Views

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer

Freedom, Hate, Evil

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
Charles Bradlaugh

Free, Denial, Speech

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Ozzy Osbourne

Life, Morning, Mean

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.
Marya Mannes

Future, Revenge, End

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.
Charles de Secondat

Power, Experience, Far

Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.
Betty White

Health, Fun, Care

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.
Betty White

Business, Blessed, Cannot

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Care, Sick

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

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