Abuse Quotes · Page 14

Unfortunately, there is a lot of abuse and negativity online.

— Normani Kordei

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

— John Barnes

“My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen—numb.”

— J. Kahele

Blame them for hurting you, and blame yourself for putting up with it.

— SONYA PARKER

“Some people think it’s a jungle out here. It’s not… It’s a fucking zoo!" - excerpt from: freefalling”

— Darlenne Susan Girard

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

— Jimmy Barnes

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

— Ann Widdecombe

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense…

— Steve-O

We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and…

— John Vasconcellos

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other…

— Kent McCord

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,…

— Gautama Buddha

Some of my friends in this business have received awful online abuse, but I've so far pretty much avoided it - and…

— Greg Davies

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come…

— Maxim Gorky

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess…

— Alex Lifeson

There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they…

— Thabo Mbeki

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak…

— Desmond Tutu

I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in…

— Dave McGinnis

It is important to know that criticism is a natural part of life and speaking out, and to know that a certain…

— Tara Moss

There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)…

— Laura Mullen

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then…

— Anonymous

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

— Gautama Buddha

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

— Charles W. Pickering

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

— Pat Buckley

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

— Dalai Lama

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

— Sam Simon

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly.

— Janusz Korczak

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

— Thomas Szasz

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

— Peter F. Hamilton

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think it used to be an accepted leadership tactic to essentially abuse people.

— Brendan Hunt

I see the skin from the inside out when I'm operating on it - I can see the dehydration and the abuse.

— Paul Nassif

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

— Mencius

“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".”

— Stefan Molyneux

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.”

— Laurie Matthew

“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.”

— Patricia Dsouza