Abuse Quotes
1213 quotes by 943 authors
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Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.
— David Pryce-Jones
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
— Jimmy Carter
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The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it…
— Francois Mauriac
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It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in…
— William Penn
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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
— Adam Clarke
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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All of us have far too much to do to waste our time and energies in criticism, faultfinding, or the abuse of others.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
— Charles Bradlaugh
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Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine…
— Increase Mather
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We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have,…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
— Wendell Berry
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Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and…
— Timothy Ball
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One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of…
— Nicole Kidman
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Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
— Herbert Ward
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This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own…
— Salma Hayek
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
— Robert J. Sawyer
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No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the…
— Brooke Ellison
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I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes…
— M. Russell Ballard
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The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A…
— Ban Ki-moon
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