Abuse Quotes - Page 34

• A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People, Family And Friends, Birth

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• Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

  John Bradshaw

  People, Survived

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• It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

  Naomi Wolf

  Matter, Human Nature, Humans

  "The End of America? Naomi Wolf Thinks It Could Happen". Interview with Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. November 20, 2007.

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• Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

  John Dean

  House, Tragedy, Might

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• There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

  Oscar Romero

  Men, Outrage, Torture

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• One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

  Byron Dorgan

  Blow, Civilization, Keys

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• To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

  Ann Veneman

  Children, Light, Justice

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• Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.

  Ben Miller

  Real, Thinking, Healthy

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• Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming more and more independent, and are starting to make decisions that will affect them now and into the future. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.

  Atoosa Rubenstein

  Girl, Stress, Independent

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• 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, Atrocities

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• The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment.

  Irene Khan

  Kings, Military, Army

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• Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

  Chris Witty

  Talking, People, Silence

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• As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Attitude, Whales, Humanity

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• Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Creating, Confusion, Thrive

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.48, Penguin

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• It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

  George Eliot

  Home, Hypocrisy, Sometimes

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.65, Xist Publishing

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• When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Hands, Lasts

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.213

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Men, Talking

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• Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?

  Plautus

  Home, Looks, Accustomed

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• That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Arise, Ennui

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• Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Equality, Practice, Trying

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1791). “An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French”, p.147

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• He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Doe, Bears

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.39

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• Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, Power, Government

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