Abuse Quotes · Page 28

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

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

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

We don't need a law against McDonald's or a law against slaughterhouse abuse--we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we…

— Joel Salatin

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the…

— Sinead O'Connor

Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to…

— Kerry Washington

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where…

— Bell Hooks

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

— Abbie Hoffman

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom…

— Richard Dawkins

Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a…

— Kate Kelly

“The government researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided…

— Cheryl Hersha Lynn Hersha

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst…

— Ellen Hopkins

“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal? I…

— Alice Jamieson

“Just as sometimes I wondered if Grandpa had ever existed, sometimes I wondered if I truly existed myself. As I was running,…

— Alice Jamieson

We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not…

— Kate Thornton

If you take sales presentations and brokers of commercial real estate and businesses... I'm 70 years old, I've never seen one I…

— Charlie Munger

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays…

— Calvin Coolidge

I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with…

— Frank O'Hara

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

— Gautama Buddha

“If he’s hitting you now, stop contemplating leaving him, and just leave.”

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

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

The abuse on Twitter has become so commonplace and accepted that people have literally made careers out of it.

— Ana Kasparian

“No one could leave the group by his or her own volition and put the group at risk of having its secrets…

— Judith Spencer

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.

— Pattie Mallette

Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

— Donald Trump

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.”

— Hadinet Tekie

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

— Lynn Swann

“A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.”

— Nenia Campbell

“You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!”

— Bryant McGill