abuse quotes

• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (John Adams) [abuse/words/society]
• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Marcus Cicero) [basis/argument/abuse]
• No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. (Paul Gallico) [abuse]
• 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) [more/abuse]
• And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. (Samuel Johnson) [abuse/nature/willpower/system]
• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge. (John Locke) [speech/abuse/language/science]
• Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. (Ronald Reagan) [forget/abuse/america]
• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. (William Shakespeare) [abuse/greatness/power]
• Use, don't abuse. (Grace Jones) [abuse]
• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid. (Christopher Eccleston) [abuse/school]
• “The therapists didn't know, ... The therapists knew about my abuse. The therapists knew about the shame I was enduring. ... But the therapists never knew the extent of the world that I created to get out of the shame of my abuse.” (Anne Heche) [abuse/shame/shame]
• I really abuse the substance unapologetically. There was one good year where I gave up sugar completely. Then, when my birthday came around, I decided I wasn't going to celebrate without chocolate cake. So I eased myself back on sugar. Besides, it makes me happy. (Bebe Neuwirth) [abuse]
• I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse. (Kathleen Turner) [character/child/abuse/abuse]
• Mariska has her own foundation. She helps with survivors of sexual abuse - they go swimming with wild dolphins. (Christopher Meloni) [abuse/wild]
• “The vast majority of those we are assisting do not abuse this gift of the American people.” (Melissa George) [abuse]
• Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. (Charles Bradlaugh) [abuse/speech/speech]
• The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race. (Charles Bradlaugh) [abuse/day/life/people]

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