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