Abuse Quotes

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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in… — Thomas Jefferson
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. — Clint Eastwood
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then… — Martin Luther
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it. — Jeremy Collier
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. — Anita Roddick
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my… — Lynn Johnston
[T]he Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious… — P.J. O'Rourke
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence… — George Washington
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of… — Huw Irranca-Davies
One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent… — Friedrich Nietzsche
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did… — Robert Scoble
Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where… — Gene Spafford
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free,… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as… — Henry James Sumner Maine
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of… — Don Kates

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