Quotes and Sayings About Abuse

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Children #Abuse #Religion

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Political #Abuse #Arbitrary

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Abuse #Factions

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
-- Adam Clarke

#Abuse #Waste #Creation

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
-- Adeline Yen Mah

#Creativity #Compassion #Abuse

The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
-- African Spir

#Intelligent #Men #Abuse

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Smile #Buddhist #Abuse

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
-- Al Roker

#Bad Day #Self #Abuse

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
-- Alan Cumming

#Abuse #Shapes #Opinion

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.
-- Alan Keyes

#Animal #Abuse #Slavery

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

#Choices #Abuse #Sexually

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
-- Aldo Leopold

#Land #Abuse #Commodity

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Thinking #People #Abuse

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...
-- Aldous Huxley

#Art #Emotional #Abuse

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Pride #Men #Abuse

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

#Men #Abuse #Human Nature

[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Men #Abuse #Violation

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
-- Alfred de Musset

#Abuse #Adjectives #Romanticism

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.
-- Alice Miller

#Children #Ignorance #Abuse

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.
-- Alice Miller

#Judging #Abuse #Process

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
-- Alvar Aalto

#Drawing #Abuse #Purpose

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Dna #Abuse #Nuance

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Peace #Abuse #Foundation

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
-- Andrew Cuomo

#Wall #Thinking #Abuse

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

#Giving #Abuse #Might

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Children #Abuse #Politics

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Writing #Annoyed #Abuse

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#People #Abuse #Fans

We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.
-- Anthony Romero

#Government #Creating #Abuse

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Abuse #Doubt #Done