Abuse Quotes

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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs. — Thomas Pynchon
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
Applause is the beginning of abuse — Ted Hughes
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what… — Jennifer Weiner
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it… — Jane Green
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives — Alfred de Musset
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking
Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want. — Randy Alcorn
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. — Wendell Berry
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all… — Chuck Palahniuk
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave… — Bertolt Brecht
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the… — Rob Bell
Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind,… — Unknown Author
Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too! Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that? Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal… — Natsuki Takaya
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know… — Inga Muscio
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by… — James Madison
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera

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