Abuse Quotes

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Confidence, Emotional, Perception

  "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

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

  Salma Hayek

  Domestic Violence, Against Violence, Victim

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  The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

  Marya Mannes

  Revenge, Environmental, Green Trees

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.

  Bill Phillips

  Fitness, Monday, Food

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  If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Feelings, Doing Things For Others, Want

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

  George Pell

  People, Abortion, Scandal

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• There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Esteem, Believe, Emotional

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• When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Winning

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• These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

  Confucius

  Humility, Order, Ideas

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• Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Rights, Vegetarian Diet

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Domestic Violence, Weapons, Vulgar

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• All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Encouragement, Pain, Believe

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• Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

  Plautus

  Looks, Calumny, Look At Yourself

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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• Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

  Francis Quarles

  Anger, Power, Long

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• Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Running, Political, Politics

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Presidential

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• It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

  Chris Witty

  Children, Secret, Important

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  One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life, Motivational, Success

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Thinking, Anxiety, Different

  "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Children, Government, Groups

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• Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

  Tina Modotti

  Art, Trying, Done

  Tina Modotti, Robert Miller, Spencer Throckmorton, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Tina Modotti: photographs”

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