Abuse Quotes

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Mary Garden

Sex, Children, Child

Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
Bob Barr

Problems, Voting, Create

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger

Values, Order, Taken

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Ed Markey

Conscience, Physical, Sexual

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James F. Cooper

American, Ambition, Language

I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety.
Carol Ann Duffy

Different, Anxiety, Planet

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.
Lynn Johnston

Family, Mother, Father

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Karen Mills

Business, Down, Small

Use, don't abuse.
Grace Jones

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
Ruud Gullit

Black, Few, Played

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
Octavia Spencer

Someone, Problems, Knows

The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters

Problems, Learn, Purpose

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.
Jane D. Hull

Home, Live, Children

I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
Julianna Baggott

Sex, Church, Left

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.
John Yoo

While, Plan, Top

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.
Richard Cobden

Long, Landlords, Terms

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.
Steve Brown

Smile, Tired, Sick

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
Erin Moran

Family, Physical, Mental

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.
Jim Sensenbrenner

End, Game, Young

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy

Faith, Different, Issue

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.
Adam Rickitt

Trust, Greatest, Job

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.
Mary Frances Berry

Good, Job, Confidence

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.
Roger Mahony

Death, Broken, Church

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Love, Marriage, Work

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
Xavier Becerra

Age, Alcohol, National

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.
Russ Carnahan

President, Congress, Tax

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that.
Rosalind Wiseman

Power, Important, Hard

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

Costs, Goods, Healthcare

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
Charles W. Pickering

Culture, Financial, Media

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Arundhati Roy

Made, America, Whole

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