Misuse Quotes

• America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

  Dick Gregory

  America, Giving, Black History

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• If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

  Craig Groeschel

  Purpose, Knows, Can Do

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• Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Silly, Stupidity, Catholic

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Ideas, Mislead, Misused Words

  'Principles of Ethics' bk. 1 (1879) pt. 2, ch. 8, 152

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• Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Political, Patriotism, Purpose

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• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  Adam Hamilton

  Evil, Feelings, Use

  "No, Everything Doesn’t Happen for a Reason" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2012.

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• You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

  Michael Levy, Baron Levy

  Change, Abuse, Twists

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• I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

  Barney Frank

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Beantown Brawl". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2005.

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Criminals

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Enmity, Made, Occasions

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

  John Cage

  Mean, Listening, Acquisition

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.78, Wesleyan University Press

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• The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Causes, Credit, Four

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• As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

  Mark Hatfield

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Ted Nugent

  Country, Children, Gun

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Agency, Government, Years

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• Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Happiness, Basketball

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• the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

  Jan Clausen

  Poetry, Poetic, Ends

  Jan Clausen (1982). “A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism”, Long Haul Pr

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• I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

  Rick James

  Art, Rap, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 28, 2001.

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• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Tired, Acceptance, Knowing

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

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• ...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

  Robert Wright

  Ignorance, Moral, Equipment

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.21, Vintage

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• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  Saint Augustine

  Damnation, Use, Salvation

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• Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race.
  To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Race, Bridges

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, People, Ability

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