Abuse Quotes

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When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities. — Ruud Gullit
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant H. McGill
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because… — Arthur Caplan
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and… — Jon Evans
The country feels like it's entitled to abuse this state and forget about us, and we are sick of it. — James Carville
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. — Tecumseh
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can… — Auberon Waugh
Reserve your abuse for your true friends. — Larry Wall
Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people. — Daniel Schorr
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But… — J. Robert Lennon
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be… — Brigid Brophy
Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness. — John Sentamu
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals. — Doug Ose
Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power. — Newton Lee
I donâ€™t wanna have any other kind of job. I canâ€™t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of… — Kurt Cobain
Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption.… — Peter Sunde
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Authentic love does not devalue another human being. Authentic love does not silence, shame or abuse. If you are in a relationship with someone who… — Brooke Axtell
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of… — Lloyd deMause

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