Abuse Quotes - Page 2

• I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

  Rick James

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike, to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature.

  Jane Porter

  Women, Thinking, Faults

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

  William Davenant

  Hate, Sin, Wit

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• This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, House, Majority

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

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Money, Business

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• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Opinion

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Domestic Violence, Overcoming, Abandonment

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• We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

  Arthur Murray

  Past, Ignorant, Wonder

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• I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

  Kato Kaelin

  People, Want, Realizing

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• 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

  Afternoon, Littles, Moral

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2231, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Charlie Sheen

  Recovery, Dark, Play

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Animal, Giving

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• What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

  Isabel Allende

  Abuse Of Power, Impunity

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• We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

  Tim Roth

  Children, Thinking, Government

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Rebuilding, Revolution, Improvement

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Blow, Rights

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

  Joan Konner

  Organization, Roles, News

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• What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil, envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Roots, Evil

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• That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Peace, Tendencies, Barriers

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Atrocities

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• So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Bully, Patterns

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• Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
  Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Birth, Juliet, Stumbling

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

  Richard Pryor

  Animal, Suffering, Honorable

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