Abuse Quotes · Page 27

I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse.

— Ritchie Torres

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

— Thomas Jefferson

“There were good times or goodish times, only the bad times were so—crucial.”

— Iris Murdoch

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the…

— Herbert M. Shelton

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

— Stefan Molyneux

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

— Rahul Dev

“Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.”

— Angelica Hopes

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or…

— Clare Balding

“Rather than being insecure, psychological abusers are easily offended, consumed with themselves, and want things just their way.   Each”

— Shannon Thomas

Digital power is every bit as likely to be abused as physical power, but is often more insidious because it is often…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any…

— Patti Smith

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the…

— Bob Uecker

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to…

— Orson Welles

Abuses are diversified, and not necessarily visible to every one accept the one who faces it, but have no words to express…

— Santanu Mishra

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling”

— Darlenne Susan Girard

My mother saw her mother... her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I'd say…

— Kathy Hochul

“I'd been in love, and I'd meant it- the happiness, the lust, the peace... I'd felt all of those things. Once. ...…

— Sarah J. Maas

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it…

— James Madison

“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive…

— Alison Miller

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism…

— W. S. Gilbert

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches…

— Lundy Bancroft

On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili.…

— Molly Ivins

“I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to…

— Gillian Flynn

It takes courage for anyone to complain about sexual harassment or abuse.

— Nick Boles

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

— Maximillian Degenerez

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

— Diane Watson

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

— Andrew Cuomo

“Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!”

— Malcolm Lowry

“Abuse came in many forms; it didn’t need a bruise to leave damage.”

— Ruth Cardello

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

— Banksy

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing…

— Joss Whedon

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.

— Marissa Meyer

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

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

— Mencius

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

— Paul Nassif

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