Abuse Quotes

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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless. — Sigmund Freud
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body,… — Ray Davies
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?… — John C. Calhoun
For too long, Americans have fallen victim to financial abuses at the hands of predatory lenders that operate in the shadows. — Kay Hagan
Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods… — Tippi Hedren
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability… — Pema Chodron
Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse — John Bonham
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they… — Jason Isbell
The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in… — Harry Reid
Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make… — Charles Issawi
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it,… — Ian MacKaye
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl
In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of… — Janet Jackson
Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or… — C.S. Lewis
A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black… — Adela Popescu
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today… — Seneca the Younger
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... — Aldous Huxley
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer

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