Abuse Quotes
1213 quotes by 903 authors
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We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution,…
— Peter Sagal
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The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the…
— Sam Simon
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I don't think his hands could take the abuse.
— Randall Cobb
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Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
— Wendy McElroy
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Abuse of power isn't limited to 'bad guys' in other nations. It happens in our own country. Those in power get jaded, deluded, and seduced…
— Clint Eastwood
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You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Beware the abuse of Power. Both by those we disagree with, as well as those we may agree with
— Benjamin Carson
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Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse,…
— Kate Kelly
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When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the…
— Beverly Engel
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Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not…
— Euripides
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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be…
— Horace Mann
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Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse,…
— Karen Horney
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In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood…
— Christopher McDougall
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Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my…
— Jeannette Walls
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There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have…
— Max Baucus
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