abuse Quotes

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

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

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals<br />to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress<br />and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for<br />pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States. You ask him or her what they are. They say, \'I am Irish.\' No, you're white. \'What do you mean, I am white?\' And they point me out. \'Oh, I see what you mean. This is a strange land.\'

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

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

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of all ages, makes it the height of folly to intrust any set of men with power which is not under every possible control; perpetual strides are made after more as long as there is any part withheld.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We've got to take an affirmative stance about it.

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl .

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

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.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

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.

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

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.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

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

What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic -- or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.